On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 10:01:58AM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> The payoff for this effort is a major increase in work factor and in
> particular, forcing an adversary attempting a traffic analysis attack to
> intercept and decrypt multiple fire hoses. 40Gb/sec is quite a lot of data
> to store. It is over an exabyte per link per year. Or about a quarter
> million 4Tb hard drives. Or $200 million at $500 per drive (including
> racking etc.)
That's assuming the attacker is going to attack link-level security
--- which to me sounds like the French assuming the Germans would make
a full frontal assault on the Maginot Line.
It would seem that a much more intelligent thing for the adversary to
do is to force/induce/send a national security letter/FISA warrant so
as to put the tap between the decryption gear and the default-free
zone router.
- Ted
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