How is NSA breaking so much crypto?
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Humanoid_1
wow, that's some real carelessness brought on by number blindness and faith in that blindness.
"Hey guys, we we have this Reeally Big Number, so big we won't have to worry about it being ever cracked, lets all just use the same key...." -.-"""
Kinda reminds me of :
"640 kB ought to be enough for anybody"
lolol
kosh_neranek
This is hard to believe. The whole world using just a handful of huge primes for crypto..WOW
Koniakki
Thankfully I upgraded my protection and I'm not worried! :wanker:
http://i.imgur.com/Nl5gC4R.jpg
RzrTrek
How do I upvote your picture?
SirDremor
Awesome! Lol =)
And regarding the news - as much as I do not like NSO and Snowden - this technology feat is just awesome. Hats off to them.
Though I would be even more happy if it was done via Quantum computing...
boodikon
Mr Robot
Koniakki
Almost there... 😉
Major Quantum Computing Breakthrough
gUNN1993
This also probably means NSA have already come up with a way to improve the code and are working on a way to break it right now XD
Barry J
wonder if they start a service for password retrieval
Herem
If the NSA can do it then its not beyond the realms that others have the same capabilities.
It makes you wonder why companies are so keen to move all of their IT infrastructure into the cloud when there's such a long history of security algorithms being broken.
readonly
Umm I dunno about all cert authorities but the one we exclusively use has required 2048 bit since Oct 2013 and better crypto's. Maybe I'm missing something but your article says 1 year for 1024 so 2048 would be exponentially more and unfeasible.
airbud7
haha :banana:
Extraordinary
I'd be more inclined to think it works like just about everything else in the world
Target: Secure
Infiltration unit: I`ll give you many moneyz
Target: Done
World: Fooked
k3vst3r
Lets face it, if they have physical access to the data they can access it eventually.
cyclone3d
The problem with large prime numbers is that they are going to have to be hard coded into the program.
If they have more than one available to use, then they are just going to have a table of those numbers to choose from.
On top of that, using large primes of a specific form is going to limit the available choices even more which is going to make it even more insecure.
Once the "hacker" has the list of available for use primes, all they have to do is iterate through them one by one and look for it to decode the traffic into something that looks correct for the type of traffic they are trying to "hack".
If it can be programmed, it can be hacked.
Ven0m
They want to ban encryption, like in some totalitarian countries.
Well, yes, but it may be unpractical to hack.
Also, you don't really have to hardcode these numbers. For example VPN negotiations may have different numbers for different servers. For other purposes, larger pool can be used. The issues is that we don't know that many primes. I mean there are a lot of them, but the increase of computing power will catch up.
Noisiv
10^9 times harder for a 2048 bit than for a 1024
NIST has recommended phasing out 1024 since 2010.
tsunami231
What Mr Robot did would be welcome by 99% of everyone on this planet, im surpised no one has done/tried it yet
Besides is anyone really shocked by this? NSA among other agency have been data mine people for decades with the invention of the internet and mass wifi cell phones etc etc it became that much easier.
No such thing as uncrackable,
fantaskarsef
Also helps keeping the battery from freezing, right? 😀
gUNN1993
Encryption banning has been on the agenda several times before, here's a short video on the practicality of it ... erm I can't remember the conclusion but it was something like "they can try it but practically it's not really feasible"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShUyfk4QB-8
lol okay the first line is "you can't realistically ban encryption" so I was proably right in my memory
