Originally Posted by mayonaise
then there would be no point of sending any encrypted message in the first place, because any person could just store the message on his hard drive until he breaks the encryption. in a vast majority of cases, the security of your information is only as secure as your keys/passwords. keep those secure and your system and data will be too. regularly changing passwords and keys is a fundamental security precaution. it's one of the first things you learn in a computer security class when you start talking about encryption and passwords.
Yes... but think of messages that are critical that are using encryption standards similar to DES. The point is we can all indirectly harbor the works of hackers by installing certain P2P softwares. So now if someone intercepts this message and uses a million pcs on a P2P network they can crack that message in no time. Nothing is secure in this world, every code is breakable given time and resources so why should we provide people with these resources.