maybe he just used other people's ssh keys that were protected by a weak (or no) passphrase?
"fabricate" is a pretty strong word, but under the "least untruthful" standard that James Clapper says he's applied to congressional testimony, there are numerous interpretive possibilities. On Jun 25, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Natanael <natanae...@gmail.com> wrote: > That depends on the system. Consider how HDCP encryption was broken; > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection > > It used a scheme where access to enough keys allowed you to calculate the > master key, breaking the entire scheme. > > > 2013/6/25 Bill Scannell <b...@scannell.org> > This Daily Beast story on Causa Snowden > (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-snowden-s-files-are-out-there-if-anything-happens-to-him.html) > contains the following sentence: > > "Last week NSA Director Keith Alexander told the House Permanent Select > Committee on Intelligence that Snowden was able to access files inside the > NSA by fabricating digital keys that gave him access to areas he was not > allowed to visit as a low-level contractor and systems administrator. " > > How would one fabricate a digital key? > > > -Bill > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > cryptography@randombit.net > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography > > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > cryptography@randombit.net > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography