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Re:Who Is Publishing NSA and CIA Secrets, and Why? by tptacek on Thursday April 27, 2017 @06:19PM (#14215271)
Configured properly, boring TLS can be made effectively intractable. From a cryptographic perspective, I don't think intractable is at all unrealistic --- and I don't know many crypto engineers who think it is.
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Re:Who Is Publishing NSA and CIA Secrets, and Why? by linkregister on Thursday April 27, 2017 @07:37PM (#14215764)
That's the least interesting part of my comment. Sure, TLS is great. What about the rest?
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Re:Who Is Publishing NSA and CIA Secrets, and Why? by tptacek on Friday April 28, 2017 @12:56AM (#14216944)
I don't know how incompatible the rest of it is with things I already said. I would just suggest that the NSA is less motivated by preventing terrorism than it is by protecting and expanding the careers of the NSA rank and file.
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