Re:Cryptography May Not Be Dead, But It Is on Life Support
by mpyne on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @02:11PM
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Neither of which enable mass surveillance though, which is the major threat from what I can tell. Rubber-hose cryptanalysis has been possible since the Caesar cipher.
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Re:Cryptography May Not Be Dead, But It Is on Life Support
by chris_mahan on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @02:29PM
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If there were hundreds of millions of sites to compromise, I agree. But if one obtains, and keeps obtaining, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Yahoo private certificates, then one can access the private information of billions of people.