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And, as a corrolary of this, you presently won't have much to fear if this break has happened, simply because the NSA would only use it _very_ sparingly, like h
by gnaffle 13y ago
And, as a corrolary of this, you presently won't have much to fear if this break has happened, simply because the NSA would only use it _very_ sparingly, like how the allies used the Enigma break during WW2.
Of course, if the cat ever gets out of the bag, that situation would change.
- regularfry 13y agoCarrying on from that thought, the various mathematician-employing agencies have now had over 60 years to study the problem of "how much can we use this critical information-revealing tool without exposing its existence?" If they can identify an upper bound on "sparingly", that's immensely valuable.
- Plasmoid 13y agoDuring WW2, the Allies would crack messages to locate submarines. Now killing a submarine once you know where it is, is pretty easy. The problem is finding the submarine, and explaining how you were found. To handle that, the Allies used a form of parallel construction. They would send a spotting plane over the area, to spot the sub and give a plausible reason to have located the submarine.
- regularfry 13y agoThat just moves the problem. Now the Germans start wondering how the spotting planes seem to be so damn good at being in the right place at the right time.