Very interesting read.

""""" Resnick: The recent article in Wired describes where and how the NSA plans to store its share of collected data. But as the article explains, the Utah facility will have another important function: cryptanalysis, or code-breaking, as much of the data cycling through will be heavily encrypted. It also suggests that the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), expected to remain durable for at least another decade, may be cracked by the NSA in a much shorter time if theybve built a secret computer that is considerably faster than any of the machines we know about. But more to the pointbis encryption safe? """""

I'm not sure I buy the theories for the new data centre. Drive capacity

Guessing it's pretty much as on the wrapper. In another interview Binney speaks of a cryptographic breakthrough. If you look at the physical size of the datacenters, you can easily envision massive index tables, rainbow or otherwise, for storing shortcuts to various projects. Note that ever since MySpace, network analysis has been the rage. Combine that with 15-20 years of public datamining and 10-15 years of easily tappable fiber and datacenters. Toss in some really smart people and PhD's and sure, there are bound to be some big and secret advances in data processing and even crypto in play here.

specifically the insider threat

You don't need big DC's for that, just better software and human checks and balances.

I think cryptography will depend more and more on steganography [...] and the message is encoded in the inter-packet timing noise. ;)

Moot when you suck up and process everything to extract the crypto. Steg is nothing more than crypto with a pretty wrapper meant to get past the drunk guards, not specialized sieves sifting through your garbage. There are better lists for these topics so I'll step out. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE