[Cryptography] "Exclusive: Russia carried out a 'stunning' breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on U.S. soil"

Henry Baker hbaker1 at pipeline.com
Sat Sep 21 20:10:32 EDT 2019


At 12:20 PM 9/21/2019, Salz, Rich via cryptography wrote:
>Actually, everyone was complaining about mandating the Clipper Chip. 
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>Wrong.  We were complaining about all sorts of export controls on cryptography.

We're all *still* paying the price for the last crypto wars in the form of "downgrade attacks".

what do you think we're "downgrading" to?  A: "export grade" encryption.

Also, I seem to recall that the voice encryption in various flavors of GSM systems is still quite breakable -- probably in real time -- thanks to Crypto War I.

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Google's now claiming "NOBUS" quantum computing capabilities.  Who do you think controls the vast majority of email and cellphones?

"Don't be evil", indeed!

(My April Fool's Risks submission claims that the disappearance of Google's "Don't Be Evil" slogan was their "warrant canary" being activated.  There is unfortunately growing evidence to support this bad joke, which is on all of us.)



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