__/ [ Mateus Denigris ] on Tuesday 16 January 2007 17:22 \__
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> On 2007-01-16, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> __/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Tuesday 16 January 2007 12:43 \__
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>>> on Jan 15 2007 21:10 Rex Ballard wrote:
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>>>> You would probably have to go back to Visicalc ..
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>>> Do you have any reference or citation for the NSA getting PGP modified
>>> ..
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>>
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/3884f5d59e7e45c3?hl=en&;
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>> Yes, I'd still like to know about this myself. PGP is heavility used in
>> transimission protocols which are supposedly secure.
>
> This is the old "can the spooks do this?" routine. The reality is that we
> have no idea what the various shadow organizations can do and what they
> can't or for that matter, to what degree they even take an interest in any
> given data or person(s). The big one used to be if blowfish and twofish
> remain uncracked and secure against intrusion by these organizations. Who
> knows? Are they going to tell? No. We can make educated guesses based on
> what we think we know. The creator of blowfish now emphasizes *access*
> security and secure *habits*. This is because the real question is not how
> secure is your encryption, but what is it that you are willing to devote to
> encryption, and who has access to the encrypted data.
>
> The other obvious point is, do they care? Homeland security might peek at
> email on a random basis, but do they monitor your IP address? Unless you
> have some red flags attached to your person, probably not.
>
> GPG is a great application of crypto. It's strong encryption, and fits most
> needs just fine. If you are concerned about using it to send very sensitive
> data across the internet, Don't do it. There are other tools for getting
> your information to others securely.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mateus
Damn....
Chinese Prof Cracks SHA-1 Data Encryption Scheme
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/20/1936257&from=rss
Now just imagine the impact.
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