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Does this mean SSL is secure?

• adamnemecek 13y ago
  Maybe the gov't just does not want to reveal all the aces up their sleeves.
• VMG 13y ago
  Hard to tell - the government would still try other methods first before showing their hand.
• McGlockenshire 13y ago
  It just means that at least in some possible cases, the way that SSL is broken is by demanding the private keys and installing a transparent proxy or tap outside of the network. So while it might not be broken in the way we usually expect crypto to be broken, it continues to be broken from a trustability point of view.
  • fennecfoxen 13y ago
    I dunno. That's exactly the way you should expect crypto to be broken: "don't attack the encryption, attack how it's used"
  • gred 13y ago
    http://xkcd.com/538/ http://xkcd.com/538/ (in this case the wrench is metaphorical)