[Cryptography] You guys do realize the first crypto war was lost, right?

[Ryan Carboni]

There is evidence that since 1997, we have been buying chips with secret
features that would make our computers more secure, but have been denied to
us as a de facto backdoor right?

There is the reverse of the clipper chip. Except the silicon and the API to
access it is secret, as opposed to only the API.

It is hard to come to any other conclusion that pro-cryptography civil
libertarians are anything other than clowns when Zerodium pays up to
$10,000 for router exploits. You know. Routers, the ones with 128-bit WPA
encryption with shared secrets for multiple devices? I suppose people won't
"wittingly" buy backdoored products.

The good news is that bruteforcing 128-bit encryption with a classical
computer is that it would cost 2^56 times as much as gross bitcoin mining
expenditures. Somehow estimated bitcoin mining expenditures don't seem to
add up though, shouldn't intelligence agencies be able to crack 2^80
encryption with ASICs? Currently costs several billion to preimage at 2^73
complexity.
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