Russia and China crack Snowden Cache

[Georgi Guninski]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 03:07:11AM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> http://politics.slashdot.org/story/15/06/14/0441220/report-russia-and-china-crack-encrypted-snowden-files
> 
> Russia and China have cracked the top-secret cache of files stolen by
> the fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden, forcing MI6 to pull
> agents out of live operations in hostile countries, according to
> senior officials in Downing Street, the Home Office and the security
> services.

Don't know about the Chinese, but with very high probability
the Russians have Snowden's dump since long ago.

He is seeking asylum and is in their hands.

They are responsible for his (dumps) "physical security".

Likely they cracked him in O(1), without dealing with crypto.