Wikileaked Stratfor admin talks crypto. Nonsense?

Sylvia Ganush sganush at me.com
Mon Sep 2 13:32:57 PDT 2013


'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



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