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We need to stop posting these non-technical ravings of people who haven't a clue. Kevin Drum can certainly have an opinion about the NSA (and he's mostly wrong
by blcknight 13y ago
We need to stop posting these non-technical ravings of people who haven't a clue. Kevin Drum can certainly have an opinion about the NSA (and he's mostly wrong, I think), but his musings about what the NSA can do is clearly uninformed.
He seems to believe that all commercial crypto is suspect; and there exists some other nebulous category called "strong crypto." D'oh! If only we had all been so smart enough to use this obviously better "strong crypto" instead of "commercial." It's meaningless. The NSA has it's hands in all the crypto cookie jars.
The NY Times slides:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/05/us/documents-reveal-nsa-campaign-against-encryption.html?loadDynamically=false&commentsPosition=middle&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/05/us/documents-r...
give us some new details that have some usable specifics that can be gleaned.
- kalkin 13y agoYou beat me to this complaint.
- drcode 13y agoExactly. The idea that the NSA has can break arbitrary SSL without access to source keys is an EXTRAORDINARY CLAIM that goes against most of what we know about the science of cryptography. Just some managment type in the government saying a single time that the government has made "major breakthroughs" in cracking SSL does not meet the standard of ETRAORDINARY EVIDENCE.