Re: [Cryptography] NSA and cryptanalysis

[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, this will all be wild speculation unless Snowden leaks more 
> specific information - which wouldn't fit his style, at least as demonstrated 
> so far.)

I read that WP report too. IMHO this can only be related to RSA (factorization, 
side-channel attacks).




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

[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-america/


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