key escrow: no news is bad news ?
You don't hear much about key escrow anymore. In fact, even at the height of the patriot act hysteria, there was little to no talk of key escrow. I can't be the first to put forth the conjecture that this is *not* good news ?
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 05:00:09AM +0000, John Case wrote:
You don't hear much about key escrow anymore. In fact, even at the height of the patriot act hysteria, there was little to no talk of key escrow.
I can't be the first to put forth the conjecture that this is *not* good news ?
I presume it doesn't scale well, and/or they've given up on that and look at traffic analysis, interception and storage, and system compromise by altering packets on the wire, or actual physical layer compromise once you're interesting enough. -- 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
It may be that the methods Eugene cites are diversions to discourage looking too close at what is hidden in encryption packages. Public key escrow probably morphed into the usual secret government arrangements with comsec suppliers. Nothing encourages greater use of crypto than to believe it is secure, says those who laugh at how easy it is to foster faith in prayerful mathematics and cold dead hands. Meanwhile the secret keepers remain at maximum paranoia and make sure their bosses are too, to keep the endless bounty of research and counterintelligence funds coming. The hoohah the last few days about DoD ramping up even more its aggression against "cyber-security" attacks indicates that the spies cannot ever be too suspicious that somebody is out hoodwinking their hoodwink. Best to spy at home especially where the "best" inventors and implementors are dreaming of a lottery win. Enlisting crypto programmers and suppliers in the booty-fest is as simple as offering irresistable contracts, lipsticked with patriotism and rouged with being among the "smartest people in the world," not overlook lifetime economic security -- just as outlined in contract soliticitations and recruiting ads for NSA and CIA. The spies' retirement fund is as sweet as betrayal.
John Young wrote...
The hoohah the last few days about DoD ramping up even more its aggression against "cyber-security" attacks indicates that the spies cannot ever be too suspicious that somebody is out hoodwinking their hoodwink. Best to spy at home especially where the "best" inventors and implementors are dreaming of a lottery win.
Let's not also forget that Obama actually looks to be actually witdrawing from Iraq. That's a whole market that's going to contract so it's only natural the spooks start latchin' onto "Cyber terrorism" as a new market. I'd only be slightly surprised if a new photo makes it's way into the public domain showing Osama sitting at a terminal with a unix box next to him on the cave floor... _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: I wanted more reliable, now it's more reliable. Wow! http://microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default-ga.aspx?h=myidea?ocid=PID2472... ::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_myidea:102009
John Young wrote...
The hoohah the last few days about DoD ramping up even more its aggression against "cyber-security" attacks indicates that the spies cannot ever be too suspicious that somebody is out hoodwinking their hoodwink. Best to spy at home especially where the "best" inventors and implementors are dreaming of a lottery win.
Let's not also forget that Obama actually looks to be actually witdrawing from Iraq. That's a whole market that's going to contract so it's only natural
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 12:58 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: the
spooks start latchin' onto "Cyber terrorism" as a new market. I'd only be slightly surprised if a new photo makes it's way into the public domain showing Osama sitting at a terminal with a unix box next to him on the cave floor...
"Hey, it's a unix system, I know this" [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
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