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Re:How the NSA Got So Smart So Fast by fnordfnordfnord on Thursday June 13, 2013 @12:12PM (#5874810)
What could we do about it if 1. were true? Not much.

For 2. I think it's safe to assume that they know a few tricks that we don't. Probably enough to hasten breaking encryption, but probably not enough to make encryption useless.

For 3. Yes, isn't that obvious?

Here's a recent discovery regarding FPGA's, maybe not the NSA, but it didn't get there by accident. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/sec_news.html

I suspect that some bugs like this one in Intel networking chips may not be bugs http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html

If it is technically feasible, then it is almost certainly being done.

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Re:How the NSA Got So Smart So Fast by DuskStar on Thursday June 13, 2013 @12:28PM (#5874922)
Well, there are some things we could do for 1. - switch to an algorithm not vulnerable to quantum computing, for example. I think NTRU would be an example of this.
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