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Re:The U.S. National Academies Reports on the Prospects for ... by boznz on Sunday December 16, 2018 @12:42PM (#18694085)
So use TOR today but expect a knock at the door sometime in the next 10 years, Scary Thought!
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Re:The U.S. National Academies Reports on the Prospects for ... by clubm8 on Sunday December 16, 2018 @09:43PM (#18696572)
Take what I say with a grain of salt, I'm not a cryptographer.

It's my understanding the onion routing (what went where) could be cracked since it uses public key. The data itself may be fine because it uses private key, but if you sent the private key using a public key then you may be burned (IIRC there's a protocol where you send the symmetric key using public key crypto then fall back to private key since it's faster)

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