On 9/5/2013 2:16 PM, Russell Senior wrote: >>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Dexter <[email protected]> writes: > Michael> Portland Linux/Unix Group Meeting Announcement > > Michael> Who: Ted Mittlestaedt What: Virtual Private Networks Where: > Michael> PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level) When: > Michael> Thursday, September 5th, 2013 at 7pm Why: The pursuit of > Michael> technology freedom > > In light of today's revelations, quite topical! > > Maybe the talk should be renamed "virtually-private networks" or maybe > "not-so-private virtual networks" ;-) > > I would not be trusting any binary-blob vendor to be keeping my bits > private at this point.
While I don't doubt that the NSA has a large budget and a supercomputer farm to match, I still think that properly-implemented, peer-reviewed, open-source and strong cryptography algorithms are still out of their reach. The problem, as I've read about before is a large amount of open source software that blindly applies AES without a good understanding of cryptography creating weak solutions like cryptoloop and tinc. Properly implemented solutions like dm-crypt and OpenVPN may also use AES, but are implemented properly and should keep away the prying eyes of the government for another few years. Maybe what we need is a place to find detailed information of the quality of various open source solutions as reviewed by well-known cryptographers. > > -- Loren M. Lang [email protected] http://www.north-winds.org/ Public Key: ftp://ftp.north-winds.org/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: 10A0 7AE2 DAF5 4780 888A 3FA4 DCEE BB39 7654 DE5B
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