On 2013-06-21, at 12:57 PM, Joseph Lorenzo Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Fri Jun 21 12:51:11 2013, phryk wrote: >> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:55:57 -0400 >> Nadim Kobeissi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The solution to this is to make encryption more and more widely used. >>> By increasing the number of people with access to encryption >>> technology for their communications, we dilute this threat. >> >> My thought exactly, just encrypt ALL THE THINGS and let those people >> deal with humungous amounts of data, most of which will be completely >> useless even if decrypted. > > What about the theory that by encrypting all the things we are feeding > some massively large NSA cryptanalysis project that uses different > flavors of ciphertext to find weaknesses? Very conspiracy theorist-y, > but I've heard a few people say that maybe we shouldn't "donate" > unnecessary ciphertext to such a project. :/ Just to me personally, this really doesn't sound credible at all. The NSA doesn't need people to generate ciphertext. Ciphertext generation is inexpensive. NK > > best, Joe > > -- > Joseph Lorenzo Hall > Senior Staff Technologist > Center for Democracy & Technology > 1634 I ST NW STE 1100 > Washington DC 20006-4011 > (p) 202-407-8825 > (f) 202-637-0968 > [email protected] > PGP: https://josephhall.org/gpg-key > fingerprint: BE7E A889 7742 8773 301B 4FA1 C0E2 6D90 F257 77F8 > > > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
