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This is a good start, but in the end the NSA can bypass any of these measure if needed (even the cryptography). The only think that really can change this situa
by mtct 13y ago
This is a good start, but in the end the NSA can bypass any of these measure if needed (even the cryptography). The only think that really can change this situation is a protest versus your political representatives.
- jiggy2011 13y agoYou think NSA has a way to break AES/RSA?
- mtct 13y agohttps://sslimgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png https://sslimgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png
- dageshi 13y agoI don't think that scales very well...
- UVB-76 13y agoAlas, the NSA can afford a million dollar cluster to crack your password...
- riquito 13y agoAll the computers in the world wouldn't be able to brute force AES with a strong key in less than 10 quadrillion years [1]. They would be better off spending millions in four-leaf clovers and faceroll the password. That said if they knew a way to crack AES or RSA it would be a different story (a nightmare). [1] http://blog.agilebits.com/2013/03/09/guess-why-were-moving-to-256-bit-aes-keys/ http://blog.agilebits.com/2013/03/09/guess-why-were-moving-t...
- jiggy2011 13y agoA million dollar cluster won't make a dent in cracking an AES key of a proper size. Not unless the NSA have managed to solve some pretty baffling math problems and keep it secret.
- IanChiles 13y agoThe NSA is currently the largest employer of mathematicians in the US. To think they haven't found anything of use would be naive at best. http://www.nsa.gov/research/tech_transfer/advanced_math/ http://www.nsa.gov/research/tech_transfer/advanced_math/
- riquito 13y agoAES is a specification of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). USA use it to encrypt the most sensitive informations. It's hard to think that they would use a broken cryptographyc algorithm themselves
- sweedy 13y agothe common xkcd-answer when it comes to cryptography.. http://xkcd.com/538/ http://xkcd.com/538/
- noerps 13y agoIt simply does not need to scale very well to scare the few people which understand crypto and plausible deniability.