Originally Posted By: RNewcomb
Once someone has the encrypted document, it's just a matter of time before the technology becomes available to decipher it ... Encryption, honestly, just makes it harder for someone to get the information. It doesn't make it impossible.

This is true. My reason for bringing this up is not to discuss some end-all perfect encryption that can never be broken. I'm sure the NSA can break your PGP or Truecrypt encrypted file if they put there resources to it.

The problem I am illustrating is that people without the determination and resources to truly break an encrypted file don't need to - they have backdoors that make it trivial to access your data. So if Microsoft can get in, a Microsoft employee can get in, the government can get in, a government employee can get in, and any of these could have their backdoor compromised by a hacker who then shows everyone how to get in.

In a nutshell, Don't trust people who intentionally put backdoors into their encryption.