[Cryptography] Fwd: freedom-to-tinker.com: How is NSA breaking so much crypto?

[Dan McDonald]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 02:39:35PM +0000, Peter Gutmann wrote:

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> In any case it's not the sooper-sikrit alien-technology NSA supercomputer
> you need to worry about, it's the night janitor, the two dozen undisclosed
> 0days in your VPN box, the fact that it was sent to you via standard Fedex,
> the fact that it's controlled by Windows PCs, the fact the you allow BYOD
> devices to connect to it, the fact that... well, you get the picture.

In other words, there are lower hanging fruit once you leave 1024-bit land.

(And yes, I'm aware of the lower-hanging fruit.)

Thanks,
Dan