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Re: [Cryptography] RSA is dead.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dan@geer.org)
Mon Dec 23 18:10:40 2013
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From: dan@geer.org
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:21:39 EST."
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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 13:34:41 -0500
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> What the recent revelations really show is that the NSA is abjectly
> incompetent at its real job which is making America safe. They have
> failed to protect the confidentiality of US government secrets.
> They were pwned by a 29 year old contractor.
It is said that the most important legacy for an executive
is what did not happen on their watch. In a complexifying
world, the list of things that did not happen (the numerator)
becomes as inestimable as the list of things that could
have happened (the denominator), thus reducing conversations
on a given legacy to the listing of anecdotes.
In the meantime, what do you think of the Russians going
back to typewriters? To be crisp, on a scale from paranoid
fantasy (0) to unshakeable genius (100), where would you
place the mark?
--dan
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