The article is conflating stuff and is just FUD. You don't need certs to apply asymmetric cryptography. As I understand it, the NSA could insert itself as a so

The article is conflating stuff and is just FUD. You don't need certs to apply asymmetric cryptography. As I understand it, the NSA could insert itself as a so-called "Men in the Middle" (aka MITM Attack). See this SO question for a far better explanation than I could provide: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14907581/ssl-and-man-in-the-middle-misunderstanding http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14907581/ssl-and-man-in-t...