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From the headline I imagined this was something like "We lost our encryption key for some important data, but the NSA had already cracked or stolen it, so they
by brundolf 5y ago
From the headline I imagined this was something like "We lost our encryption key for some important data, but the NSA had already cracked or stolen it, so they were able to return it to us"
- account-5 5y agoMe too!
- godelski 5y agoSame, but in reality it was a far more interesting topic. And surprising to see how long it took them to crack it considering they had a priori information for the key (knowing the new key could only be a few bits from the old key).
- lukas099 5y agoIf, hypothetically, the NSA could have found the key faster using classified technology, would they be forced to do it the slower way? Otherwise an uncleared person could surmise that the existence of the classified technology.
- godelski 5y agoI mean there's two possibilities with that, right? If they got lucky they could push immediately and freak everyone out and they could also just sit on the answer for a week. Either way, we get bounds on their capabilities.