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Re: [Cryptography] NSA and cryptanalysis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Zauner)
Sat Aug 31 02:24:07 2013
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From: Aaron Zauner <azet@azet.org>
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Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 05:10:57 +0200
To: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
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On Aug 30, 2013, at 1:17 PM, Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com> 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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