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Originally Posted by peachy  It's pretty easy to identify encrypted voice traffic but then it could be tunneled though an ssh tunnel (a VPN) for example and there is no way of knowing what that carries. You'd have to accept that some traffic you will not be able to sniff, or block certain types of ssl traffic which has it's own limitations. |
Yes, but once alerted to traffic deemed to be of sufficient importance, the spooks can use more conventional means to acquire encryption keys. We are going back nine years here:
Encryption at the mercy of the law.