[Cryptography] RSA is dead.

[dan at geer.org]

 > 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