-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 21/06/13 17:57, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote: > What about the theory that by encrypting all the things we are > feeding some massively large NSA cryptanalysis project that uses > different flavors of ciphertext to find weaknesses? Very conspiracy > theorist-y, but I've heard a few people say that maybe we shouldn't > "donate" unnecessary ciphertext to such a project. :/
Sorry to be blunt, but that theory is nonsense. The NSA can't possibly learn more from the ciphertext of an unknown plaintext than it could learn by generating its own ciphertext from a known plaintext - which would save the cost of a splitter cabinet, to boot. Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRxKFlAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMJDMIAKE/4EamX+E6xPExWNTWb2ct ACpHkg2ovh6Ez8pS25h5arwicftWLo2fZUDicy6If0Vz2AWyr2iFBvknFezH+jlY X1Af+oWwScYEV3UmPQCQInQmXzDziXYXYxE6W2Tpokq3pkVguyTaqKZsxVQhMc3T oLZKGxKtXLaissBXDtLn/XRR5CNUsn1ZzSziJEynXO56gGut0eXGZIExdNCy8POt Tc2KzDyPaX91t2Zz1ecNUEN6h4FgUCgTOQcAndz7i+0cUG/5V+XhwJazct+00tqS LjasOQIU5ICCTEpJy3L2vxEB/jdDTZ21Xt+5WNdEMLOwXl56/DZkJc1chL6VRtA= =EAd2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
