Re: [cryptography] [info] The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

2012-03-23 Thread dan
jd...@lsuhsc.edu writes, in part: 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. What percentage of acquirable/storable traffic do you suppose actually exhibits perfect forward

Re: [cryptography] [info] The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

2012-03-23 Thread Jeffrey I. Schiller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What percentage of acquirable/storable traffic do you suppose actually exhibits perfect forward secrecy? I bet the word Perfect mis-leads quite a few people. It isn't perfect (unless you take as axiomatic that the cipher in question cannot be

Re: [cryptography] [info] The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

2012-03-22 Thread Peter Maxwell
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

Re: [cryptography] [info] The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

2012-03-22 Thread Marsh Ray
On 03/22/2012 09:57 AM, Peter Maxwell wrote: From http://blogs.computerworld.com/19917/shocker_nsa_chief_denies_total_information_awareness_spying_on_americans?source=CTWNLE_nlt_security_2012-03-22 Remember, former intelligence official Binney stated, a lot of foreign government stuff we've

Re: [cryptography] [info] The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

2012-03-22 Thread Jon Callas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 22, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Marsh Ray wrote: Or it could be complete BS. The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. -- Damon Runyon. Jon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [cryptography] [info] The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

2012-03-19 Thread Dean, James
Could it be an algebraic attack on AES? ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography