Re:EFF trendwatch: attacks on cryptography
by trotsky on Saturday December 25, 2010 @02:57PM
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They predicted two areas that encryption would come under attack, and then followed up with two examples where snooping only happened because encryption wasn't being used. Seems like a bad call.
Re:EFF trendwatch: attacks on cryptography
by ItsBilly on Saturday December 25, 2010 @02:45PM
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They give themselves too much credit for the SSL prediction. Firesheep wasn't a new attack on an SSL, it was an old one in a package so convenient that everyone finally paid attention. For a moment.
As for GSM, yeah, that's just the old "computers will keep getting cheaper and more powerful" prediction, dressed up.
Re:EFF trendwatch: attacks on cryptography
by jmg on Saturday December 25, 2010 @02:37PM
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They didn't exactly go out on a limb with their predictions - they said that GSM security technology and SSL implementations are flawed, so we'll see more attacks on them in 2010. Anyone who follows security and/or web technologies could have said that.
As for GSM, yeah, that's just the old "computers will keep getting cheaper and more powerful" prediction, dressed up.