On 05/09/13 21:10, Richard Brooks wrote: > >> 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. >
You missed his point. "subtly weaken international cryptographic protocols and sabotage industry implementations" would be like selling vehicles / buildings / food with a secret back-channel to the US government to hijack / self-destruct / poison the eventual consumer, during peacetime, and to allies. The NSA does not have a mission to do anything it wants, and you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the world, and ethics, if you think that it does, or that it should. > 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.) > -- GPG: 4096R/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE git://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
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