US security agency ´can crack online encryption´

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has secretly developed the ability to crack or circumvent commonplace Internet encryption, according to reports published in the Guardian and the New York Times newspapers, and non-profit online newsroom ProPublica, in September. The reports cite documents obtained by fugitive NSA contractor Edward Snowden that suggest the US intelligence agency has developed the ability to bypass widely-employed encryption used to protect everything from sensitive emails to financial transactions.