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raven
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New NSA computer to break PGP?
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Oct 12 02:02 UTC 1994 |
I read somewhere that the NSA has a new supercomputer with 512,000
Cray CPUs that can break a PGP encrypted message in about 10 minutes.
Does anyone have more info on this latest government intrusion into our
privacy?
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orinoco
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response 1 of 38:
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Oct 15 16:23 UTC 1994 |
no
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jkrauss
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response 2 of 38:
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Oct 23 15:16 UTC 1994 |
me neither.
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matts
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response 3 of 38:
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Oct 31 03:07 UTC 1994 |
IT shouldn't even have to take that long..
i have heard about this...it is quite amazing
what this thing can do...
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raven
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response 4 of 38:
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Oct 31 17:41 UTC 1994 |
The missing fair winess returns... :-)
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peacefrg
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response 5 of 38:
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Nov 10 18:20 UTC 1994 |
I heard about this computer. Supposedly the secret service and cia use it to
check up on certain netusers. National security my ass.
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doorknob
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response 6 of 38:
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Nov 21 18:32 UTC 1994 |
The NSA is a branch of the CIA, the communications and elint branch, really.
Because of this they are bound to operate under the CIA charter.
They CIA charter makes it illegal for them to operate inside the United
States, undertake operations against US citizens, or make arrests.
Not that this ever stoped them before...
Case anyone cares, their Washington adress isn't there home. They really
run out of Ft. Meade, which is an Army base. Was does this bother me...
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scuzz
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response 7 of 38:
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Mar 20 19:01 UTC 1996 |
thatz scary, I think I'm going to lock the doorz (N.S.A.)[Ciz a bunch of
overpowered freaks anyway.. What are they doing with the monies we give
them.?
Use it to take away our privacies? I say we rebel...!!
.end
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insur
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response 8 of 38:
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May 24 16:42 UTC 1997 |
I have heard something along these lines, and it is not surprising. Until
one-time key pads and such are usable (i.e. mathematically impossible to
break), then any government with enough money can just build a faster and
better machine to break any cryptography that gets in their way. DES can be
broken very easily by the FBI, so it is not surprising that NSA decided to
take on PGP.
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srw
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response 9 of 38:
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May 25 15:53 UTC 1997 |
One-time pads are already impossible to break.
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font
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response 10 of 38:
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Jul 24 04:46 UTC 1997 |
But still: if it is so #%#%& easy for them to break, then why is the
government scared of incription? There must be something that's unbreakable,
or the government wouldn't care.
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