-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > There is a massive difference between cryptanalysis and decade-long, > well-funded, and top-secret program to subtly weaken international > cryptographic protocols and sabotage industry implementations. >
Their job is to collect information for the military. That their work is top-secret should be obvious. That they try to weaken the crypto not used by the military and US gov. should also be taken as a given. I'm not necessarily in favor of the NSA doing this, I just find some of the shocked outrage silly. It should be obvious that the cryptanalysis people work at breaking codes. (Spying on domestic communications, on the other hand, used to be strictly forbidden for good reasons. Among other things, you do not want intelligence and counter-intelligence to be friends.) (Keeping long-term records of domestic communications, is another thing that you do not want the intelligence service doing. Their are too many temptations for abuse.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlIo5SoACgkQEwFPdUjsHjDHIACfQcOHpKWpUXcG6ag35q4PibKF Uq8AmwRGNfATnpPUnwFHnayynWYzTXvS =2qnO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
