Re: [cryptography] Snowden: Fabricating Digital Keys?

2013-11-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Bill Scannell b...@scannell.org wrote: This Daily Beast story on Causa Snowden (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-snowden-s-files-are-out-there-if-anything-happens-to-him.html) contains the following sentence: Last week NSA Director

Re: [cryptography] Snowden: Fabricating Digital Keys?

2013-11-08 Thread John Young
At 12:55 PM 11/8/2013, you wrote: Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/08/net-us-usa-security-snowden-idUSBRE9A703020131108. The revelation that Snowden got access to some of the material he leaked by using colleagues' passwords

Re: [cryptography] Snowden: Fabricating Digital Keys?

2013-07-25 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Bill Scannell b...@scannell.org wrote: This Daily Beast story on Causa Snowden (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-snowden-s-files-are-out-there-if-anything-happens-to-him.html) contains the following sentence: Last week NSA Director

Re: [cryptography] Snowden: Fabricating Digital Keys?

2013-06-30 Thread grarpamp
that if Snowden has access to them - other people who wish to have access may also have these document - too bad none of them seem to care to educate the public or to expose the incredibly illegal interpretation The incidence/depth of leakers/leaks over time seems to be increasing. Whether or

Re: [cryptography] Snowden: Fabricating Digital Keys?

2013-06-29 Thread Cool Hand Luke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/28, Nico Williams wrote: How would one fabricate a digital key? They probably meant something that sounds close. E.g., minted a certificate, or a ticket, or token, or whatever the thing is, by subverting an issuing authority or its

Re: [cryptography] Snowden: Fabricating Digital Keys?

2013-06-28 Thread Nico Williams
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Peter Gutmann pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote: How would one fabricate a digital key? They probably meant something that sounds close. E.g., minted a certificate, or a ticket, or token, or whatever the thing is, by subverting an issuing authority or its processes

[cryptography] Snowden: Fabricating Digital Keys?

2013-06-25 Thread Bill Scannell
This Daily Beast story on Causa Snowden (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-snowden-s-files-are-out-there-if-anything-happens-to-him.html) contains the following sentence: Last week NSA Director Keith Alexander told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Re: [cryptography] Snowden: Fabricating Digital Keys?

2013-06-25 Thread Natanael
That depends on the system. Consider how HDCP encryption was broken; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection It used a scheme where access to enough keys allowed you to calculate the master key, breaking the entire scheme. 2013/6/25 Bill Scannell

Re: [cryptography] Snowden: Fabricating Digital Keys?

2013-06-25 Thread Bill Scannell
On Jun 25, 2013, at 5:38 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 05:17:04PM -0400, Bill Scannell wrote: This Daily Beast story on Causa Snowden (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-snowden-s-files-are-out-there-if-anything-happens-to-him.html) contains

Re: [cryptography] Snowden: Fabricating Digital Keys?

2013-06-25 Thread Mark Seiden
maybe he just used other people's ssh keys that were protected by a weak (or no) passphrase? fabricate is a pretty strong word, but under the least untruthful standard that James Clapper says he's applied to congressional testimony, there are numerous interpretive possibilities. On Jun 25,

Re: [cryptography] Snowden: Fabricating Digital Keys?

2013-06-25 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Mark Seiden m...@seiden.com wrote: maybe he just used other people's ssh keys that were protected by a weak (or no) passphrase? fabricate is a pretty strong word, but under the least untruthful standard that James Clapper says he's applied to congressional

Re: [cryptography] Snowden: Fabricating Digital Keys?

2013-06-25 Thread Peter Gutmann
Bill Scannell b...@scannell.org writes: Last week NSA Director Keith Alexander told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that Snowden was able to access files inside the NSA by fabricating digital keys that gave him access to areas he was not allowed to visit as a low-level