Re: [tor-talk] NSA supercomputer

2013-04-06 Thread Christian Sturm
Anthony Papillion wrote: . Granted, quantum computing will shred most (all?) of the ciphers we currently use. Which actually is a bit sad, cause RSA appears to be replaceable Latice-based cryptography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_based_cryptography As the article says though one n

Re: [tor-talk] NSA supercomputer

2013-04-06 Thread Paul Syverson
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 03:28:49PM -0400, Griffin Boyce wrote: > Gregory Disney wrote: > > > Just saying TOR was created by the Naval Research Laboratory a part of > > DARPA. Since it's inception they could index, spider and track the dark > > net. > > > The Naval Research Lab didn't "create" T

Re: [tor-talk] NSA supercomputer

2013-04-06 Thread cmeclax
On Thursday, April 04, 2013 08:17:29 Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Bernard Tyers wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there a reason 1024 bit keys, instead of something higher is not used? > > Do higher bit keys affect host performance, or network latency? > Because in 2003/2004, w