FBI Announces Post-Election Attack on Encryption
thedashtimes.com
thedashtimes.com
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7d57f576e3f74b6ca4cd3436fbebf...
In particular: Comey was lamenting (albeit weakly) that the conversation had "dipped below public consciousness", and his plans where to return it there.
Heavily editorialized pieces can be fine when they do their own reporting. But "The Dash Times" doesn't seem to have done that; rather, they seem to be refocusing other pieces --- and not entirely honestly --- in order to generate rageviews.
(I am, of course, foursquare against key escrow).
It seems anything that links back to the "World Socialist Website" is just a waste of everyone's time.
The big winner of the U.S. presidential election will be police.
And the RSA paper is no doubt still on the shelves of the libraries. And it is in various books, e.g., IIRC one by B. Schneier. IIRC, the main number theory is just Fermat's little theorem in even elementary books on number theory.
IIRC, breaking RSA is equivalent to being able to factor a large integer into a product of prime numbers. As soon as some mathematician finds how to do that quickly enough to be practical, likely we will hear about it via an Abel Prize of just the front page of the NYT. I haven't heard yet.
Comey: Good luck on getting your back doors in DIY, roll your own, open source PGP RSA encryption! The open source part? That is much of why Zimmerman did his work.
He doesn't have to. He just has to compromise the main commercial systems, which 99.99% of the world population uses.
At that point, the very fact that you're one of 0.01% of the population using decent crypto makes you a target.
Which means: we won't have a conversation about it, and simply start issuing warrants and orders to companies demanding they comply anyway. If you want to challenge it, here's a Kafkaesque process for you.