If so, our State Department is dumber than I thought.
There are commercial products that can encrypt with up to 4000 bit encryption keys--basically, unbreakable.
My company encrypts data sent over the internet.
What's with our government? Even if these are "secure" diplomatic wires, I would encrypt these emails.
Of course, I know this was an inside job--some employee with access dumped this to Wikileaks--so encryption probably wouldn't have mattered.
They are encrypted for transmission. The problem is that the person stole them after they had been received.