On 22 March 2012 14:15, Dean, James <jd...@lsuhsc.edu> wrote: > From > http://blogs.computerworld.com/19917/shocker_nsa_chief_denies_total_info > rmation_awareness_spying_on_americans?source=CTWNLE_nlt_security_2012-03 > -22: > > Despite the fact that domestic spying on Americans is already an > e-hoarding epidemic, the massive new NSA storage facility in Utah will > solve the problem of how to manage 20 terabytes a minute of intercepted > communications. > > Even if the intercepted communication is AES encrypted and unbroken > today, all that stored data will be cracked some day. Then it too can be > data-mined. The super secret spook agency is full of code breakers. > "Remember," former intelligence official Binney stated, "a lot of > foreign government stuff we've never been able to break is 128 or less. > Break all that and you'll find out a lot more of what you didn't > know-stuff we've already stored-so there's an enormous amount of > information still in there." Binney added the NSA is "on the verge of > breaking a key encryption algorithm." >
That sounds far more plausible than the previous explanations. I'd also suspect the "key encryption algorithm" may be RC4 and not AES at the moment.
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