Re: [cryptography] NSA cracking UN videoconference - worried?

2013-08-27 Thread Natanael
Elsewhere it has been speculated that they got access to the VPN they used. 2013/8/27 pjklau...@gmail.com: Dear Cryptographers, The article on UN video-conference spying allegations ( http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/8/25/nsa-bugged-u-n-headquarters. html ) claims: In the summer

Re: [cryptography] NSA cracking UN videoconference - worried?

2013-08-27 Thread Kyle Maxwell
The original story in Spiegel[0] said so explicitly: The embassies are linked via a so-called virtual private network (VPN). If we lose access to one site, we can immediately regain it by riding the VPN to the other side and punching a whole (sic!) out, the NSA technicians said during an internal

Re: [cryptography] NSA cracking UN videoconference - worried?

2013-08-27 Thread John Young
It should be remembered that most, if not all, the UN members spy on one another. UN embassies and consulates in NYC bristle with antenna. The US embassy, a high-rise across from the UN, overlooks the mother ship and the wee boats huddling close. It was rebuilt a few years ago to get rid of the

[cryptography] NSA cracking UN videoconference - worried?

2013-08-26 Thread pjklauser
Dear Cryptographers, The article on UN video-conference spying allegations ( http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/8/25/nsa-bugged-u-n-headquarters. html ) claims: In the summer of 2012, NSA experts succeeded in getting into the U.N. video conferencing system and cracking its coding system,