________________________________ >From: Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> >To: Liberation Technologies <[email protected]>; >[email protected]; [email protected] >Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 8:24 AM >Subject: Re: [liberationtech] [cryptography] NSA "breakthrough" >----- Forwarded message from Danilo Gligoroski <[email protected]> >----- >Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:54:04 +0200 >From: Danilo Gligoroski <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [cryptography] NSA "breakthrough" >Organization: Department of Telematics, IME, NTNU, Trondheim >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0 >Reply-To: [email protected] >Joachim Strömbergson wrote: >> A "breakthrough" seems to me not to be a backdoor, but either >> cryptanalytical progress or progress in brute force efficiency. >In my opinion it has nothing to do with cryptography, but rather in the >advancements of: >1. Storage technology (increasing with a ratio of billions or trillions of >times from early 1990s) >2. Data collecting capabilities from: > a. Complexity of the software that billions of users use that leaks >information from thousands of places (Cap'n crunch whistle phenomenon - see >the video from last year CRYPTO talk of Jonathan Zittrain "End of Crypto") Why doesn't he mention free software in the entire talk? It'd be like giving a history of obesity and never mentioning that people can learn to read nutritional information on the foods they buy, or pay a nutritionist or personal trainer they trust to read it for them and use the knowledge to help them lose weight. Actually it's worse than that-- it'd be like addressing obesity without letting the audience know there's a machine that exists which costs $0 that takes nutritional information listed on a package and verifies that it's true. Available to anyone who can read the instructions on the side of the machine. -Jonathan
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