I think that fabricating a key here is more likely to mean fabricating an
authentication 'key' rather than an encryption key. Alexander is talking to
Congress and is deliberately being less than precise.
So I would think in terms of application level vulnerabilities in Web based
document servers.
John Denker writes:
It is against NSA policy to attach a thumb drive. I betcha some
folks really want to know how he did that without getting caught.
Take a mouse. Remove its own electronics. Substitute a Teensy 2 which
emulates a mouse AND a thumb drive, but only after a certain
combination
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013, Alec Muffett wrote:
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.
Or simply:
http://cms.intranet.boozallen.com/document?id=${N}
John Gilmore g...@toad.com writes:
[John here. Let's try some speculation about what this phrase,
fabricating digital keys, might mean.]
John
John's question is not the only one raised by this episode. Eli Lake:
Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who Snowden first contacted
* John Gilmore:
[John here. Let's try some speculation about what this phrase,
fabricating digital keys, might mean.]
Most likely, as part of his job at the contractor, he had
administrator access to a system which was used for key management,
perhaps to apply security updates, manage backups
I read an article today that claims one and a half million people have a
Top Secret clearance.
That kind of demonstrates how little Top Secret now means.
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de wrote:
* John Gilmore:
[John here. Let's try some speculation about
How could it be arranged that if anything happens at all to Edward
Snowden, he told me he has arranged for them to get access to the full
archives?
A lawyer or other (paid) confidant was given instructions that would
disclose the key. Do this if something happens to me.
It doesn't have to be
Wow. First appearance on this list. Somewhat lame though, just dropping of
a link.
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.comwrote:
I read an article today that claims one and a half million people have a
Top Secret clearance.
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
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
[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.
--
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-snowden-s-files-are-out-there-if-anything-happens-to-him.html
The Daily Beast
Greenwald: Snowden's Files Are Out There if 'Anything Happens' to Him
by Eli Lake Jun 25, 2013 1:36 PM EDT
Snowden has shared encoded copies of all the
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:30 AM, John Gilmore g...@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 [1]? If the infrastructure is in place for this,
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