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Old 09-06-2013, 04:30 PM   #1
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LXer: The NSA Is Breaking Most Encryption on the Internet


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The new Snowden revelations are explosive. Basically, the NSA is able to decrypt most of the Internet. They're doing it primarily by cheating, not by mathematics.

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Old 09-06-2013, 07:22 PM   #2
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We knew this back in 86.
 
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We knew this back in 86.
9 years before SSL was invented and 6 years before the NCSA Mosaic browser was released.
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