2 Sep
2013
2 Sep
'13
8:32 p.m.
'Any encryption based on an algorithm can be decrypted with the resources available to a government.' These are words of Michael Mooney, the hapless system administrator of Stratfor, a private intelligence agency that got hacked, doxed, and wikileaked in 2011-2012: http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=3424010 Is Mr Mooney correct? On the one hand he's proven his incompetence by storing clients' credit card numbers in the clear. On the other hand, Stratfor sell themselves as spooks well-versed in security questions and hence could know better. What do cypherpunks think of Mr Mooney's statement? Does it really take a government only one month to crack a 2048-bit key? Sylvia