[nycbug-talk] Hot Story: German Gov. intelligence agencies decrypt PGP, SSH

[Glen Barber]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 07:55:15PM -0400, Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> To throw a little chicken little into what is otherwise a beautiful weekend,
> 
> A google translation says:
> "The federal government declared that its secret services were
> basically able to decrypt PGP and Secure Shell, at least partially."
> 
> http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http://www.golem.de/news/bundesregierung-deutsche-geheimdienste-koennen-pgp-entschluesseln-1205-92031.html
> 
> --
> Apparently, GnuPG list and others merely have links to this
> article, I haven't found anything more except links to this vague
> original article.
> 
> Thoughts?  Is tomorrow morning's commute to work going to look
> like that new Brad Pitt movie, *or*, are we looking at a dopey
> expose of well-known widespread worst-practices in cryptographic
> misunderstandings?
> 

http://www.xkcd.com/1181/

Glen
Sorry.  Couldn't resist.

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