You can't say how long they need to decrypt anything as long as you don't know which hardware and supercomputers the NSA exactly uses. And we will never know more than gossip. -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Walters <cwal...@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 20:25:17 To: <tor-talk@lists.torproject.org> Subject: Re: [tor-talk] NSA supercomputer
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 23:38:40 -0400 cmeclax <cmeclax-sa...@ixazon.dynip.com> wrote: > http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 > If the NSA intercepted all Tor traffic, how fast could they decrypt > it? What are they up against when trying to break Tor? Wouldn't this question be more appropriate for a crypto specific mailing list? Of course you may find that crypto experts may not be experts on TOR, though they can give you an idea of how long it would take to brute force an encrypted stream or file, given what resources, etc. As for the NSA, they closely guard how many supercomputers they have and how many they use for decryption. However, if you are on their list (the NSA or any government entity), it does not matter how strong the cryptography is, you can and will be brought in and "convinced" to divulge anything and everything they want to know. CW _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
