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Maybe because they realize that treating encryption as munitions is totally unenforceable and strong encryption is basically public knowledge at this point? I k

Maybe because they realize that treating encryption as munitions is totally unenforceable and strong encryption is basically public knowledge at this point? I know everyone has a cousin in the NSA that knows someone who knows someone who knows how to break Triple DES in 3 minutes, but there's no evidence that is actually real. Even if the NSA or whoever is years ahead of the public in math research (they aren't, BTW, these people would make far more money in the private sector) there's still no evidence to the smartest mathematicians and cryptographers that this is the case. The biggest threats to encryption is parallel computing, weak security, and possibly quantum computing in the future, not a backdoor.

amckenna 14y ago
Not to be pedantic but Triple DES could be broken relatively easily by the government, which is why it was replaced with AES. I completely agree with what you are saying in the post, I just wanted to bring up that Triple DES is considered insecure. Sources: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1003/1003.4085.pdf http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1003/1003.4085.pdf http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/360000/358718/p465-merkle.pdf?ip=130.76.32.78&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&CFID=273598392&CFTOKEN=19340017&__acm__=1360086744_c16b59c9aa99fc881048d57dbb514e4f http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/360000/358718/p465-merkle.pd...