http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Will-256-bit-encryption-block-FISA-from-seeing-what-we-do-27872566 en Fri, 24 May 2013 01:29:13 EDT Fri, 24 May 2013 01:29:13 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Will-256-bit-encryption-block-FISA-from-seeing-what-we-do-27875230
At any rate, the NSP know what you are downloading off their servers. If the government wanted to find out what you were doing, they could just go straight to the NSP and find out.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Will-256-bit-encryption-block-FISA-from-seeing-what-we-do-27875230 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:58:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Will-256-bit-encryption-block-FISA-from-seeing-what-we-do-27874363
Though it does sound like the years are going to be ticking away before the other agencies are able to afford to use this type of equipment.
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"I like to refer to myself as an Adult Film Efficienato." - Stuart Bondek]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Will-256-bit-encryption-block-FISA-from-seeing-what-we-do-27874363 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:39:06 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Will-256-bit-encryption-block-FISA-from-seeing-what-we-do-27872997
»www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/0···ter/all/

There is still one technology preventing untrammeled government access to private digital data: strong encryption. ... Most experts say that a so-called brute-force computer attack on the algorithm[AES]—trying one combination after another to unlock the encryption—would likely take longer than the age of the universe. For a 128-bit cipher, the number of trial-and-error attempts would be 340 undecillion (10 ^36 ). ...

Meanwhile, over in Building 5300, the NSA succeeded in building an even faster supercomputer. “They made a big breakthrough,” says another former senior intelligence official, who helped oversee the program. The NSA’s machine was likely similar to the unclassified Jaguar, but it was much faster out of the gate, modified specifically for cryptanalysis and targeted against one or more specific algorithms, like the AES. In other words, they were moving from the research and development phase to actually attacking extremely difficult encryption systems. The code-breaking effort was up and running.

The breakthrough was enormous, says the former official, and soon afterward the agency pulled the shade down tight on the project, even within the intelligence community and Congress. “Only the chairman and vice chairman and the two staff directors of each intelligence committee were told about it,” he says. The reason? “They were thinking that this computing breakthrough was going to give them the ability to crack current public encryption.”]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Will-256-bit-encryption-block-FISA-from-seeing-what-we-do-27872997 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:03:15 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Will-256-bit-encryption-block-FISA-from-seeing-what-we-do-27872566 www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/3···690.html

Will the 256 bit encryption that newsgroups use block FISA from seeing what we do on them?
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»A pretty good alernative to bit torrent and newsgroups]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Will-256-bit-encryption-block-FISA-from-seeing-what-we-do-27872566 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:48:43 EDT