Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Equation Group Multiple Malware Program, NSA Implicated

2015-02-18 Thread Ryan Carboni
Can't trust anything, except the mail. Only solution: personally encrypt messages by hand, using computers and GPG only for transmitting master keys if the keys cannot be delivered in person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list Oddly there isn't as much outcry over this as compared to

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Equation Group Multiple Malware Program, NSA Implicated

2015-02-17 Thread grarpamp
Here's an interesting comparison. Most academic cryptographers believe that the NSA has lost its lead: While for years they were the only ones doing cryptography, and were decades ahead of anyone on the outside, but now we have so many good people on the outside that we've caught up to, and

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Equation Group Multiple Malware Program, NSA Implicated

2015-02-17 Thread grarpamp
From someone failing to send to list: Or he actually got those docs ... Possible, but you would expect crypto research to be well compartmented from legal, sigint and offensive ops that appear to be the sole scope of the known docs. If research does posess a break, maintaining that secret while

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Equation Group Multiple Malware Program, NSA Implicated

2015-02-17 Thread ianG
On 17/02/2015 15:56 pm, Jerry Leichter wrote: On Feb 17, 2015, at 6:35 AM, ianG i...@iang.org wrote: Here's an interesting comparison. Most academic cryptographers believe that the NSA has lost its lead: While for years they were the only ones doing cryptography, and were decades ahead of

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Equation Group Multiple Malware Program, NSA Implicated

2015-02-17 Thread ianG
On 17/02/2015 00:58 am, Jerry Leichter wrote: On Feb 16, 2015, at 3:39 PM, John Young j...@pipeline.com mailto:j...@pipeline.com wrote: Kaspersky Q and A for Equation Group multiple malware program, in use early as 1996. NSA implicated.