Re: [Cryptography] NSA and cryptanalysis

2013-08-30 Thread Aaron Zauner
On Aug 30, 2013, at 1:17 PM, Jerry Leichter wrote: > So the latest Snowden data contains hints that the NSA (a) spends a great > deal of money on cracking encrypted Internet traffic; (b) recently made some > kind of a cryptanalytic "breakthrough". What are we to make of this? > (Obviously,

Re: [Cryptography] Snowden "fabricated digital keys" to get access to NSA servers?

2013-07-04 Thread Aaron Zauner
Wow. First appearance on this list. Somewhat lame though, just dropping of a link. On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > I read an article today that claims one and a half million people have a > Top Secret clearance. > http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-americ