Re: Can the NSA Crack GnuPG

2016-02-23 Thread Lachlan Gunn
By a weird freak of coincidence I am currently writing some code to simulate this type of experiment. It doesn't break relativity, rather (roughly speaking) it shows that quantum measurements cannot be predetermined unless you have FTL or some kind of non-local theory that predetermines the random

(OT) Can the NSA Crack GnuPG

2016-02-23 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 23/02/16 15:04, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > but there's some additional weirdness involved that makes it > impossible to use as an instantaneous communications channel. :) Okay. For a moment I thought I heard your train of thought again, but it turned out my cat had managed to throw over some pr

Re: Can the NSA Crack GnuPG

2016-02-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I went by recollection of a news item, which even if I could find it was > probably in Dutch. But I think this is what I meant: Whew. Okay, that's a relief: that's on experimental confirmation of Bell's theorem. Yes, the speed of entanglement is instantaneous, but there's some additional weird

Re: Can the NSA Crack GnuPG

2016-02-23 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 23/02/16 14:23, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > If we're able to transmit information FTL then relativity is wrong wrong > *wrong*. I went by recollection of a news item, which even if I could find it was probably in Dutch. But I think this is what I meant: http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-spookin

Re: Can the NSA Crack GnuPG

2016-02-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> We've recently established that Einstein was wrong and that information can > travel faster than light. That noise you just heard was my train of thought going off the rails, catching on fire, and hurtling like a fiery missile of kinetic death into a nearby station. I'm sorry, *what*? If we're

Re: Can the NSA Crack GnuPG

2016-02-23 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 23/02/16 12:55, Pete Stephenson wrote: > Searching it would be all-surpassingly impractical. Leaving aside the > speed of light limitations of searching a database far (I've run out of > superlatives) larger than our universe We've recently established that Einstein was wrong and that informati

Re: Can the NSA Crack GnuPG

2016-02-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Searching it would be all-surpassingly impractical. Leaving aside the > speed of light limitations of searching a database far (I've run out of > superlatives) larger than our universe, if you could get each atom in > the universe to output one of the 1.05*10^1153 prime numbers its storing > ev

Re: Can the NSA Crack GnuPG

2016-02-23 Thread Pete Stephenson
On 2/23/2016 9:00 AM, Mercury Rising wrote: > I saw his old disturbing post at: > That post is a joke. It even says so. > I am having a hard time believing it, but if Zimmerman did put in a > backdoor code in PGP and GnuPG is based on that, would

Re: Can the NSA Crack GnuPG

2016-02-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
And what the heck, I can't sleep, so I'll give longer answers: > Well I hope it was a joke! I went to an EFF meeting in San Francisco > and this big guy came up to me and said he had a program that would > would break PGP. Then Elvis left the building fast so I could not > follow him fast enough a

Re: Can the NSA Crack GnuPG

2016-02-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I am having a hard time believing it, but if Zimmerman did put in a > backdoor code in PGP and GnuPG is based on that, wouldn't it be compromised? One might suspect this question had been asked so frequently there was a FAQ entry devoted to it. ;) https://www.gnupg.org/faq/gnupg-faq.html#succe

Can the NSA Crack GnuPG

2016-02-23 Thread Mercury Rising
I saw his old disturbing post at: I am having a hard time believing it, but if Zimmerman did put in a backdoor code in PGP and GnuPG is based on that, wouldn't it be compromised? I would trust a multinational team of software engineers who have rea