Re: Harvard and MIT Students Launch ‘NSA-Proof’ Email Service | Betabeat

Lance Cottrell loki at obscura.com
Tue May 20 09:13:04 PDT 2014


Their architecture makes them vulnerable to compromise through hacking. If you read their threat model, it is quite modest. They are not trying to be secure against focused efforts by the NSA or similar.

	-Lance

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Lance Cottrell
loki at obscura.com



On May 20, 2014, at 8:47 AM, rysiek <rysiek at hackerspace.pl> wrote:

> Dnia wtorek, 20 maja 2014 09:05:37 Kelly J. Rose pisze:
>> Which is totally subverted if you are American citizens or located in the
>> us. Simply by the national security letters.
>> 
>> You could have the sexiest cryptosystem ever and the NSL attack will still
>> beat you if you put it on American soil.
> 
> I guess that's why they are not putting it on American soil.
> 
> -- 
> Pozdr
> rysiek

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