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Hamper Electronic Spies"
!   
!   Because the National Security Agency is actively involved in the
!   design [of Key Recovery cryptography], the agency will have the
!   technical ability to decipher the messages.
!   
!   Walter G. Deeley, NSA deputy director for communications security
!   said, "It is technically possible for the Government to read such
!   messages, but it would be insane for it to do so. It would be an
!   extraordinarily expensive undertaking and would require a massive
!   increase in computer power."

Probably since noone believed that, they admitted it, and said why they
needed to decrypt in real-time:

#                  Encryption and Law Enforcement
#    
#                        Dorothy E. Denning
#                       Georgetown University
#    
#                         February 21, 1994
#   
#   To implement lawful interceptions of encrypted communications, they
#   need a real-time or near real-time decryption capability in order
#   to keep up with the traffic and prevent potential acts of violence.
#   Since there can be hundreds of calls a day on a tapped line, any