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https://www.nccgroup.trust/globalassets/our-research/us/whitepapers/cryptopocalypse_reference_paper.pdf https://www.nccgroup.trust/globalassets/our-research/us/whit... remember this presentation from a few years ago? The Factoring Dead: Preparing for the Coming Cryptopocalypse. the only reason global mass surveillance is even technically possible os because turnkey mass scale crypto exists. if NSA and FVEYs could not conceal their own penetration and exfiltration of all the world's data, then they would not be able to do it on a scale like we saw reveales in Snowden's leaks. cryptography PROTECTS the Surveillance State MORE than it protects us Plebians. the asymmetrical advantage of weilding cryptographic supremacy is what makes NSA's regime physically possible. all modern crypto is based on a handful of crypto primitive math algorithms. we blindly trust them to be secure because nobody yet knows how to crack them. but if some lone wolf math genius pulled an Isaac Newton and invented a solution to FACTOR and proved P=NP, then crypto as we know it would cease to exist. no more RSA, no more ECC, no more AES, no more SHA3. this wont even require quantum computers, because it is presently unknown whether there exists a classical solution to insoluble problems like FACTOR and P=NP. what if a classical solution does exist? what if it is found in the next 10 years? i believe it will be found. i agree with Snowden's sentiments. the mass surveillance state is an anomaly, a blip of time where a lack of mathematical progress was met with the rise of the global Internet, where it was convenient for NSA to use crypto as a weapon against all of us. post-cryptopocalypse, life is going to be very inconvenient for NSA and the FVEYs. the cost of hoarding secrets will become too great compared to the risk of losing those secrets due to a newly leveled cryptographic playing field. leveled in the sense that anyone can realistically attack any known ciphers. the future of cryptography is its past. the 18th century. manually designed cryptosystems intended to have very short shelf lives, because they get cracked so frequently. only militaries and banks will have the resources to design and deploy cryptosystems. since it will be so much more expensive to deploy encryption, only truly important secrets will be encrypted at all. there will be a massive cultural shift in how our Intelligence Agencies operate. they won't even resemble themselves as they are today. for this reason, i am a radical optimist about the fall of the mass surveillance state.