[Cryptography] Snowden "fabricated digital keys" to get access to NSA servers?

Udhay Shankar N udhay at pobox.com
Sat Jun 29 00:36:57 EDT 2013


On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:30 AM, John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> wrote:

> [John here.  Let's try some speculation about what this phrase,
> "fabricating digital keys", might mean.]

Perhaps something conceptually similar to PGP's Additional Decryption
Key [1]? If the infrastructure is in place for this, perhaps one might
be able to generate a key on demand, with the appropriate access
permissions.

Udhay

[1] http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH149500

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