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Encryptie front: Snowden docs

29-12-2014, 00:29 door Anoniem, 0 reacties
Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security

By SPIEGEL Staff

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US and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack all types of encrypted Internet communication. The cloud, it seems, is full of holes. The good news: New Snowden documents show that some forms of encryption still cause problems for the NSA.

The number of Internet users concerned about privacy online has risen dramatically since the first Snowden revelations. But people who consciously use strong end-to-end encryption to protect their data still represent a minority of the Internet-using population. There are a number of reasons for this: Some believe encryption is too complicated to use. Or they think the intelligence agency experts are already so many steps ahead of them that they can crack any encryption program.

This isn't true. As one document from the Snowden archive shows, the NSA had been unsuccessful in attempts to decrypt several communications protocols, at least as of 2012.

Aan de orde komen o.a.:

- Skype
- Tor
- Truecrypt
- OTR
- PGP
- VPN
- SSL/TLS
- Weakening Cryptographic Standards

Things become "catastrophic" for the NSA at level five - when, for example, a subject uses a combination of Tor, another anonymization service, the instant messaging system CSpace and a system for Internet telephony (voice over IP) called ZRTP. This type of combination results in a "near-total loss/lack of insight to target communications, presence," the NSA document states.


http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-s-war-on-internet-security-a-1010361.html
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