[Cryptography] NSA and cryptanalysis

[Aaron Zauner]

On Aug 30, 2013, at 1:17 PM, Jerry Leichter <leichter at 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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