Re: [Cryptography] Snowden fabricated digital keys to get access to NSA servers?

2013-06-29 Thread John Denker
On 06/28/2013 04:00 PM, John Gilmore wrote: Let's try some speculation about what this phrase, fabricating digital keys, might mean. Here's one hypothesis to consider. a) The so-called digital key was not any sort of decryption key. b) The files were available on the NSA machines in the

Re: [Cryptography] Snowden fabricated digital keys to get access to NSA servers?

2013-06-29 Thread Ray Dillinger
On 06/28/2013 09:36 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:30 AM, John Gilmoreg...@toad.com wrote: [John here. Let's try some speculation about what this phrase, fabricating digital keys, might mean.] Perhaps something conceptually similar to PGP's Additional Decryption Key

Re: [Cryptography] Snowden fabricated digital keys to get access to NSA servers?

2013-06-29 Thread Alec Muffett
[John here. Let's try some speculation about what this phrase, fabricating digital keys, might mean.] My own, personal guess is that it is obfuscation which translates as using passwords or accessing a portal over SSL plus we're too embarrassed to admit that it was that easy. --