NSA can break Web encryption

NSA means NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY has secretly developed various methods of circumventing widely used Web commercial encryption technologies, including HTTPS and SSL, which are used to secure anything from banking transactions to email services.  The NSA has bypassed or altogether cracked much of the digital encryption used by businesses and everyday Web users. The reports describe how the NSA invested billions of dollars since 2000 to make nearly everyone's secrets available for government consumption. Soghoian said in a statement, "The NSA's efforts to secretly defeat encryption are recklessly shortsighted and will further erode not only the United States' reputation as a global champion of civil liberties and privacy but the economic competitiveness of its largest companies.
         NSA has led an aggressive, multipronged effort to break widely used web encryption technologies, according to a 2010 briefing document about the NSA's accomplishments meant for its UK counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. The government access to users; digital information before it was encrypted and sent over the world wide web. GCHQ, said that, developed "New Access Opportunities" into Google's computers by 2012 but said the newly released document s didn't elaborate on how extensive the project was or what kind of data it could access.
NSA uses a wide range of ways to circumvent Internet encryption, include using supercomputers to brute-force the intercepted communications, pressuring vendors to install backdoors behind the screens, obtain encryption keys by hacking into corporate servers, and even manipulating processes to set international encryptions standards."The encryption technologies that the NSA has exploited to enable its secret dragnet surveillance are the same technologies that protect our most sensitive information, including medical records, financial transactions and commercial secrets," said Christopher Soghoian.