Why does it take half a year to decode an airplane’s black box?

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In light of the recent plane crash in Pakistan, reports suggest that it will take 6-7 months to decode the black box.
The company that made the black box surely knows how to decrypt their encryption, so why would it take so long?
Also, assuming the encyrption is super-complicated, what sensitive data would warrant such encryption? Is it just voice recordings, or something more?

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AliHB brings up a good point. If the company that makes them can’t read them, how do they know they’re working? Why “invent” a way to read them after the fact? Whichever system they use to record the data, there should already be a user friendly system to read the data.

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