Which encryption is NSA-secure?

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1 point·NicoJuicy··9 comments

Belgium recently revealed that the NSA and the british secret service (partner of NSA) is spying on politicians and members of the EU.

So it had gotten me interested in which options now are secure? And which definatly aren't.

Is there anyone who can help us shed some light on this matter?

> So it had gotten me interested in which options now are secure? And which definatly aren't.

And how can somebody outside of NSA know that? There are only speculations on this topic at this time.

How do you think anyone can tell you "encryption XYZ is NSA-secure"?

Experience, reading, knowing which projects got the coöperation with the NSA...

You can't tell if a Cypher is unbroken, because no one knows it (outside the NSA, for example).

Actually, some insecure options came out, because the NSA was helping it in development...

That's how i got the first examples on the list... There are probably more options though.

ObXKCD: http://xkcd.com/538/

I don't see them doing that against the chairman of the EU parlement ;).

Spying in secret, yeah, sure. But hitting with a wrench? :P

That's not the point of the comics, IMNSHO. The point is "the attacker will go for the weakest link in a system; secure enough crypto is no longer the weakest link, people using it become one."

So...while using direct force against a prominent politician is unlikely, there are other tried-and-true methods for compromising a human element, methods which have already been perfected a long time before modern cryptography was even born: bribery, blackmail, etc.

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