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On Thursday 19 June 2003 09:20 am, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> On behalf of the group: Why the heck do you keep using this weird
> my-responses-are-marked-with-John quoting style? Are you having a problem
> with Outlook?
>
> At 06:40 PM 6/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
>
> From: Alvaro Zuniga
>
> >To: [email protected]
> >Sent: 6/18/03 6:20 PM
> >Subject: Re: NSA's decryption clusters vs GPG, et.al. was RE: GPG does not
> >pro vide "end to end encryption", but only mail c onte nt encryption was
> > RE: [brlug-general] Cox and smtp pain today.
> >
> >Dear John:
> >
> >I suppose from this point of view there is not need to even bother with
> >encryption because brute force eventually prevails.
> >
> >John: Not at all. The dilemma that the NSA faces is that they want to
> >decrypt messages A,B,C,... but they will always have limited resources to
> >perform brute force decryption. So, they better be damned sure that
> > message A is the most important of all the messages they want to decrypt.
> >
> >However, a better cipher requires that many more computers exponentially;
> >therefore, we could at least make it more difficult for those who really
> >care about our business.
> >
> >John: Or just have more people using encryption. I've read estimates that
> >less than 1% of Internet traffic is encrypted. By merely advocating that
> >more people use encryption and raising that to 2%, we would require the
> > NSA and other intelligence operations to double their decryption
> > resources. This is the nightmare scenario that keeps the NSA IT Director
> > up at night.
> >
> >This reminds me of that John Travolta movie swordfish where the computer
> >person gradually quintuple the encryption of an algorithm to hide a bank
> >account. He also kept switching the values every few seconds ensuring
> >that it would be impossible to decrypt using brute force.
> >
> >John: As long as those values are random enough. If any pattern to those
> >values could be predicted and duplicated, brute force would still work.
> >
> >John Hebert
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