The original story in Spiegel[0] said so explicitly: "The embassies are linked via a so-called virtual private network (VPN). "If we lose access to one site, we can immediately regain it by riding the VPN to the other side and punching a whole (sic!) out," the NSA technicians said during an internal presentation. "We have done this several times when we got locked out of Magothy.""
[0]: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-nsa-documents-show-how-the-us-spies-on-europe-and-the-un-a-918625.html On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Natanael <natanae...@gmail.com> wrote: > Elsewhere it has been speculated that they got access to the VPN they used. > > 2013/8/27 <pjklau...@gmail.com>: >> Dear Cryptographers, >> >> The article on "UN video-conference spying allegations" ( >> http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/8/25/nsa-bugged-u-n-headquarters. >> html ) claims: >> >> "In the summer of 2012, NSA experts succeeded in getting into the U.N. video >> conferencing system and cracking its coding system, according one of the >> documents cited by Der Spiegel." >> >> Does anyone know what the "coding system", details about the exploit, or >> whether this latest revelation has any cryptographic significance? Or is >> this just a case of breaking through walls and stealing keys in cyberspace. >> >> - Peter Klauser -- @kylemaxwell _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
