El Chapo: who broke the encryption of conversations?

The man responsible for the arrest of drug dealer "El Chapo" or Joaquin Guzman by the authorities was revealed on Tuesday.

Two months after El Chapo's trial in New York, the FBI admitted it had access to hundreds of phone calls made by Guzman and his associates through a custom system encryptions because they had managed to get in touch with the sysadmin of the Mexican drug dealer.

Guzman's computer controller who martyred the encryption system in the federations was Cristian Rodriguez.

Many recordings were heard at the trial, from talks, in which Guzman discussed cocaine-trafficking deals, warned his bodyguard not to kill a police officer, and even had a brief conversation with a corrupt police commander.

These recordings were made because nearly a year earlier a federal agent posing as a Russian gangster met Rodriguez in a New York hotel and told him he needed a system to carry out calls without the Authorities being able to hear him.

Rodriguez had installed just such a system on Guzman. The safe network communication, was a closed, encrypted VoIP network.

IT went to Guzman's headquarters in the Mexican county of Sinaloa and installed the system. So Guzman connected to his home Wi-Fi network and made encrypted calls.

Feds tipped off by Rodriguez managed to breach Guzman's network, moving the servers from Canada to the Netherlands - claiming it was an upgrade. But on the new servers the FBI had the news wrenches encryption.

From that point onwards, the authorities managed to record every El Chapo call and their content was of course the drugs

The details were described in court by the FBI Special Agent Steven Marston, who stated that with the help of Rodriguez they managed to obtain more than 1.500 calls from the encrypted system from April 2011 until January of 2012.

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