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[Cryptography] The Guardian: "US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Sep 5 15:48:22 2013
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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 15:48:03 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Quoting:
US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked
much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions
of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online
transactions and emails, according to top-secret documents
revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden.
The files show that the National Security Agency and its UK
counterpart GCHQ have broadly compromised the guarantees that
internet companies have given consumers to reassure them that
their communications, online banking and medical records would be
indecipherable to criminals or governments
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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