[Cryptography] Sunday Times Snowden Decryption claims

[Jim Windle]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill at hallambaker.com
> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Ralf Senderek <crypto at senderek.ie> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 19:44:55 Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>>
>>  NSA can break any encryption.
>>>
>> Really?
>>
>>  That is just a fact.
>>>
>> Based on which evidence?
>>
>>  So it is time that we have to admit it and remove all the silly export
>>> restrictions on encryption algorithms that can be broken because
>>> everything can.
>>>
>>
>> I'm amazed to read such an assertion on this list at all.
>
>
> Really?
>
> When a publication as authoritative and respected as the London Sunday
> Times states that Russia can break NSA crypto at will, who can gainsay them?
>
> The original story was so absurd I thought it more interesting to point
> out that it actually argues against their objective rather than in favor.
>

Here's the Times reporter trying to explain the story to CNN, its quite
comical.

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/06/14/tom-harper-nsa-files-snowden-howell-intv-nr.cnn


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