Revealed: The NSA’s Secret Campaign to Crack, Undermine Internet Security

The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications in the Internet age, according to newly disclosed documents.

The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications in the Internet age, according to newly disclosed documents.The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically secures the e-mails, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world, the documents show.
http://www.propublica.org/article/the-nsas-secret-campaign-to-crack-undermine-internet-encryptionAlso see:Latest NSA Crypto Revelations Could Spur Internet Makeover
Documents taken from the NSA showing that the spy agency has systematically been cracking encryption and establishing a foothold in secure communications technology could provide the strongest impetus yet to spur a long overdue update of the underlying protocols of the Internet.That the U.S. National Security Agency cracks encryption comes as no surprise — code-breaking is part of the spy agency’s mission — but reports that the NSA went too far by urging software companies to insert backdoors and weaknesses into their code has raised valid questions over the viability of today’s commercial encryption technologies. The latest Snowden document leaks, reported by The New York Times and The Guardian late last week, said the agency has cracked or evaded encryption used in much of the Internet’s sensitive communications today, potentially exposing users’ encrypted email, online chats, and phone calls.
http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability/latest-nsa-crypto-revelations-could-spur/240160971

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