I would almost agree with you but, quite frankly, no part of the government is that competent. They really suck at keeping secrets and that is one of the best things I can say about them.
AES wasn't developed by Americans. The algorithm is public. The math is pretty straight forward. If you feel particularly tin-foilish, I can understand not wanting to use it just because it was chosen by NIST. In which case you could use a competing algorithm, like TwoFish. Also public, also very secure. The NSA derives their power from secrecy. They get back doors at telcos. They pull data from search engine providers and social media sites. They have access and secrecy. Public key encryption in the modern era is the opposite of that. It is public, open source and verifiable. I worry about all sorts of things regarding the NSA but encryption isn't one of them. They have so many other tools at their disposal, breaking public encryption just doesn't make sense as a high priority. Judah On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > At the risk of sounding like a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy nut, I don't > believe this. I don't think the government would sit quietly and allow the > release to the public of encryption they could not break. > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> There are no secret back doors to open source encryption with public >> algorithms. >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:354581 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
