The "Future" Fallacy

[blancw at accessone.com]

From: Duncan Frissell 

2)  And no government on earth will find easy to decipher is an
understatement.  As I'm sure you know, properly deployed modern cryptography
(or even the 100-year-old technology of one-time-pads) is mathematically
infeasible to break.  Though of course attacks other decryption remain 
possible.
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I see what you mean.  When I read his statement, I focused on the "will be able 
to transmit coded messages".

I was thinking about the efforts of the govmt to prevent it, and about how 
nevertheless even a 10-year old will be able to accomplish it in spite of the 
efforts against it (GAK).

  ..
Blanc