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It seems that in post-2013 articles on encryption the phrase "a malicious 3rd party" has been completely replaced by the 3-letter acronym: NSA.

• MattJ100 13y ago
  To be fair, they're one of a small set (possibly of size 1) of organisations that would be able to carry out most of the attacks discussed. Things that were considered highly unlikely pre-2013 are now a real possibility, if not probability.
  • ithkuil 13y ago
    why? is there any revelation that they have the compute power to do that? Or it's just because now it's know that they'd really like to do it?
    • schmichael 13y ago
      The NSA is somewhat open about the massive amounts of computing power they have available: http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/ http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/ Lots of goodies on this public site like "This [compute cluster] will give us the capability to break the AES encryption key within an actionable time period and allow us to read and process stored encrypted domestic data as well as foreign diplomatic and military communications." Obviously leaked documents and other media reports contain much scarier revelations into what the NSA is capable of, but I thought I'd post what they acknowledge since it's safe to assume they're capable of much more.
      • aneisf 13y ago
        In case someone doesn't pick up on it, gov1.info is a parody site.
        • schmichael 13y ago
          Wow I'm gullible.