On 02/07/2013 11:58 AM, Jens Christian Hillerup wrote: > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Andreas Bader <noergelpi...@hotmail.de> > wrote: >> Notionally there is no unbreakable encryption. >> Practically there is a unbreakable encryption (AES, SHA-3); our >> standarts are more than adequate. >> The risk with encryptions is more the possibility of a hardware hack. >> Or a bad guy beating the shit out of you with a 5 Dollar Wrench until >> you tell him the password. >> In real life no one will use a super computer to break our hardcore >> encrypted harddrives. > I think Nadim was being sarcastic. I'm also eager to see what comes > from this. I too think it's rather odd that these supposedly > respectable cryptographers are so blatantly ignoring Kirchoff's > principle. > > Quickly skimmed the article; it seems that you have to trust them to > *actually* encrypt your stuff on your phone before storing it on their > servers. As with so many others, it'd behoove them to put their code > where their mouths are; I don't mind them making money off of this, > but at least they should stop leveraging their big names in the > industry to get a lot of media attention around them selling > snake-oil. > > JC > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > Didn't get it, sorry. I always forget that you can have humor in such a serious world. :-)
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