For all my 'puter guru and hacktivist friends, and all those who wish anonymity.
New documents reveal which encryption tools the NSA couldn't crack
By Russell Brandom
on December 28, 2014 06:23 pm
Thanks to Edward Snowden, we're getting a new look at which programs can successfully keep out the NSA. A report in Der Spiegel has shed new light on the NSA's encryption-breaking programs, and put a spotlight on the handful of programs that are still giving them trouble. The findings, based on leaked documents, were also presented onstage at the Chaos Computer Club Conference in Hamburg by researcher Jacob Appelbaum and Laura Poitras, who took the findings as a call to action. "We really wanted to have some of these answers for fifteen years," Appelbaum told the crowd.
"The reports describe "major problems" following users across the Tor network"
The most impressive news to come out of the dump is that, as of 2012, certain emails and chats were still indecipherable by the NSA database when they had been encrypted with the right tools. Reports describe "major problems" following users across the Tor network, or deciphering messages sent through heavily encrypted email providers like Zoho. The agency reported similar problems when deciphering files that had been encrypted with TrueCrypt, an open-source disk-encryption program that was discontinued earlier this year. PGP encryption tools and OTR chat encryption also caused major problems for the agency, causing entire messages to disappear from the system, leaving only the message: "No decrypt available for this PGP encrypted message."
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