RE: [projectvrm] Re: NSA foils much Internet encryption

[Patrick Devine < >]

David,

 

‘Some of the agency’s most intensive efforts have focused on the encryption in universal use in the United States, including Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL; virtual private networks, or VPNs; and the protection used on fourth-generation, or 4G, smartphones. Many Americans, often without realizing it, rely on such protection every time they send an e-mail, buy something online, consult with colleagues via their company’s computer network, or use a phone or a tablet on a 4G network.’

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&emc=edit_na_20130905

 

Rgds

Patrick

 

From: David Sallis [mailto: ]
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 10:53 AM
To: 'ProjectVRM list'
Subject: [projectvrm] Re: NSA foils much Internet encryption

 

Here's The Guardian's report, with nice quote from Bruce Schneier.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security

Does anyone have any info on which particular aspects of Internet cryptography are the subjects?  There was a specialist on the news here in London just now - it was not a very technical interview, but the impression given was that it was SSL.  It would be good to know some specifics about the full extent of it.

David


On 05/09/2013 21:37, John Conaghan wrote:

Sorry if this is old news to you guys. Link and summary of article below.

 

John Conaghan

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?emc=edit_na_20130905&_r=0

 

N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption

The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications in the Internet age, according to newly disclosed documents.

The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically secures the e-mails, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world, the documents show.

Many users assume — or have been assured by Internet companies — that their data is safe from prying eyes, including those of the government, and the N.S.A. wants to keep it that way. The agency treats its recent successes in deciphering protected information as among its most closely guarded secrets, restricted to those cleared for a highly classified program code-named Bullrun, according to the documents, provided by Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor.

 

 

 

 

 

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