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Mathematician warns NSA may be weakening next-gen encryption
(www.newscientist.com)
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If this is true, NSA might be shooting themselves in the foot when they inevitably have to deal with Russia and China.
Just a guess, but I think they're less concerned about the giant country's surveillance of us, and more concerned about not being able to surveil the little terrorist cells.
or you know conversations with your healthcare providers
or the company VPNs of other continents.
They probably consider that they overall lose more with strong cryptography, than the risk of other countries intercepting US communications. They must have other solutions in place to protect confident information. But they likely struggle with encryption being so widely used by anyone. Even granmas can now cover their communications without much effort