Why is this even newsworthy? It's the NSA's responsibility to provide sigint and comint. Furthermore, if the delegates are not US citizens, and at least one end of the communication is outside the US, they are not even breaking any laws in doing so.
If the delegations can't be bothered to protect their own communications, it's their tough luck if they get intercepted. /ji PS: I assume the "friendly foreign intelligence agency" is GCHQ? --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]