Re:Julian Assange: Cryptographic Call to Arms
by rattus on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @04:40PM
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Silent Circle appears to be for people who both
1) Want military-grade(ish) hardened coms
and also
2) Aren't willing to set it up themselves, but trust a service provider to do it for them
I read their docs a bit ago and don't really get it. I didn't really get Whisper Systems offering either as it appeared to have a broken trust model on a variety of levels.
If I cared about this kind of thing, and I really don't, I'd likely want to own all parts of the transport system and have the only available threat surface be the encryption algorithm as much as possible
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+encryption
1) Want military-grade(ish) hardened coms
and also
2) Aren't willing to set it up themselves, but trust a service provider to do it for them
I read their docs a bit ago and don't really get it. I didn't really get Whisper Systems offering either as it appeared to have a broken trust model on a variety of levels.
If I cared about this kind of thing, and I really don't, I'd likely want to own all parts of the transport system and have the only available threat surface be the encryption algorithm as much as possible http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+encryption
Might it all be pointless without massive amounts of traffic padding based on this attack? I wouldn't know. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10207-010-0111-4...