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Amongst other things, I took the fact that the NSA can't break encryption from the Q&A - that they'll usually attack the endpoints rather than trying to brute-f
by richardw 13y ago
Amongst other things, I took the fact that the NSA can't break encryption from the Q&A - that they'll usually attack the endpoints rather than trying to brute-force it (or use secret NSA math orders of magnitude better than us peasants have). To me that's pretty significant.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Amongst other things, I took the fact that the NSA can't break encryption from the Q&A - that they'll usually attack the endpoints rather than trying to brute-force it That doesn't imply that they can't break encryption, it just means that usually they have faster/easier options.
- burke 13y agoTrue, but it does essentially mean that what the public considers to be "strong" crypto is not secretly broken by the NSA in such a way that they can decrypt communications in realtime or en masse.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> True, but it does essentially mean that what the public considers to be "strong" crypto is not secretly broken by the NSA in such a way that they can decrypt communications in realtime or en masse. Or, at least, that they are monitoring enough data that if they had to decrypt all of it in realtime, it would overtax their computing resources, so that they minimize the burden by going after the cleartext at the source when they have the capacity to get at it that way.
- richardw 13y agoHe said that strong encryption was one of the few things we can rely on. That's new information.