As for decrypting true digital encrypted transmissions, I don't
believe there
is such an animal since you NEED the key. Without it, you're just
guessing.
Perhaps this box rambles through keys in a trial and error mode until
it picks
up a signal? Depending on the key size, this could take countless
years to
accomplish.


Yes, I guess it's supposed to be some sort of number cruncher, scanning
when a digital encrypted signal is transmitted, which isn't very often.
There's not very many digital scanners in the county, like one or two,
so they don't really worry about encrypting unless it's a "major
operation". Maybe i misunderstood, he might have been telling me about
a box to decode not decrypt, saving me about $400 and using a normal
analog scanner?? I'll have to get ahold of him and clarify