Originally Posted by
michaelbinary
There is no way any government can decrypt data assuming it has encrypted correctly. Modern encryption is just too secure for that to happen. Thats why governments complain so much about Apple, and Whatsapp, and Telegram, and Signal, etc, etc. They know they cant crack the encryption in any time frame thats considered useful.
Thats why quantum computing is so interesting to governments and the military. Once they have that figured out, the worlds financial system will be toast, until somebody creates encryption techniques that quantum computers cant break. Not that I particularly worried, I will have passed before then.
Don't need decryption if you're looking at countermeasures against the techniques being used.. In broad brush terms you can counter pretty much any threat if you have enough data. This isn't really about decrypting secure comms. It's about China playing catch up with sensors and weapons.