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Re:Snowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10 by ewoodrich on Saturday September 07, 2013 @08:29PM (#6347264)
A document properly encrypted with AES or similar modern methods would be considered "strong crypto" (using the article/'90s political terminology) and would be infeasible with current computing power to crack (assuming AES does not have a major vulnerability/backdoor, which has yet to be discovered by the top security researchers who depend on it).

As tptacek and others frequently say: "Crypto is hard to do right".

There is sufficient encryption technology to evade the NSA (at this point in time) but the social-engineering aspects and difficulty confirming a bug-free, secure implementation present the most issues.

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Re:Snowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10 by sillysaurus2 on Saturday September 07, 2013 @08:31PM (#6347276)
Indeed, which is precisely why it's so valuable for us to figure out exactly what Snowden insisted on: it addresses every single one of the problems you mention, which is no small feat.
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