Re: [gentoo-user] h

[Chris Walters <cjw2004d@comcast.net>]

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Alan McKinnon wrote:
| On Friday 27 June 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
|> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:44:00 +0100, Stroller wrote:
|>>> I'm sure the NSA would be happy to forego the prize and keep
|>>> quiet about
|>>> being able to break a secure cipher.
|>> I can't help wondering if - since P=NP is such a big problem - the
|>> advantages of having this knowledge in the public domain might
|>> override the advantages of mere spying.
|> I'm sure the holy grail for the NSA is a cipher that everyone thinks
|> is totally secure but they can break. These agencies aren't
|> interested in the greater good, only furthering their own goals.
|
| This is the spooks we are talking about so I'm sure Neil is right and
| they are having wet dreams about this very thing.
|
| All I can say is, thank $DEITY for open/free software and open
| algorithms.

Somehow I doubt that the NSA has a magic bullet to crack AES encryption.  If
they did, it wouldn't be a part of the FIPS.  I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that
the US Navy has more cryptologists, etc. than the NSA - just a guess here.  It
would make perfect sense, though - since they have to use radios and satellites
to communicate with their ships at sea, they would be most interested in data
security - we wouldn't want our enemies ordering our ships or nuclear missile
subs to make attacks that weren't ordered by the President...

Chris
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