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

While I know pretty much how symmetric, and asymmetric encryption works, key exchange, negotiation etc, it appears to be a really interesting and valuable video. Thank you It's sad that people who have no idea about stuff decide about stuff.

This extremely detailed and informative video explains exactly how the internet is encrypted, and how the NSA is able to decrypt 'it'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulg_AHBOIQU TLDR, the internet crypto engine has a back door and the NSA knew what it was and had the key. They told no one and encouraged all major ISP's and telecomms companies, FB, Google, YT, TW, Yahoo etc etc to use a particular system so they could back-door everything. Remember the financial crisis? This all happened because banks were told that certain mortgages were AAA OMGWTFPWN'd in quality when they were XXX n00bphaga55rap3r. This is similar, as NIST approved the standard of security, the US government agreed, and everyone said 'well, if they say it's good, it must be good' and no one looked into it any further. Everyone put the NIST gold-seal of approval on their website with links and certs and stuff like '128/256/512/1024-bit encryption' which is totally irrelevant when someone has the úber-l33t haxxor back-slash admin rights to pwn everyone.

10^9 times harder for a 2048 bit than for a 1024 NIST has recommended phasing out 1024 since 2010.

Isn't it 2^1024 times harder? 1.8 x 10^308. How did you get that figure?

This extremely detailed and informative video explains exactly how the internet is encrypted, and how the NSA is able to decrypt 'it'. Remember the financial crisis? This all happened because banks were told that certain mortgages were AAA OMGWTFPWN'd in quality when they were XXX n00bphaga55rap3r.

hehe that youtube video is unavailable XD Tangent: Also that's a bit of a simplification of the financial crisis, the actual explanations involves a lot more swearing, the name Alan Greenspan and the words greedy and **** a lot. There's a movies coming out about it actually http://www.*********/title/tt1596363/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2 ... link, how do they even work it's called the big short

Isn't it 2^1024 times harder? 1.8 x 10^308. How did you get that figure?

it's in the whitepaper https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy-ccs15.pdf