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The reason the NSA conducts its activities in secret have little to do with "a little graft" and everything to do with the fact you don't show somebody you've b
by nvy 3y ago
The reason the NSA conducts its activities in secret have little to do with "a little graft" and everything to do with the fact you don't show somebody you've broken their ciphers unless you have to.
- candiddevmike 3y agoIf the NSA has broken them, they probably aren't the only ones. By keeping that a secret they're actually endangering national security.
- oyashirochama 3y agoThey won't show what they have access to and actively use against adversaries. They have "NSA approved cryptos" such as TACLANES hardware that other countries can use at government level with their own crypto bases. Civilian level encryption was never meant to be Government level, we were only lucky that AES and such was opened up by US law in the 1990s.
- tzs 3y agoI'm having trouble seeing how that makes any sense. When the Allies in WW2 broke Germany's Enigma cipher, are you suggesting that by not telling Germany that the Allies could now read a large fraction of Germany's military communication they were endangering their own national security?!
- nvy 3y agoThat makes no sense whatsoever. If the NSA has broken whatever cipher suite the GRU uses, or the Iranian RG, or whomever, please explain how keeping that fact a secret endangers the USA? Keep in mind they share info with the other Five Eyes and select other allied nations.
- Slava_Propanei 3y ago[dead]