LOL.... You flatter yourself, really. You just go along the way you are with your "superior intellect." I expect at some point the flaws in your understanding will become clear to you. I just hope you survive the incident. I'll give you a crib, if you haven't read the article I linked to above, you might want to do that at some point. It points out a strategy you will want to avoid. I doubt that the understanding of that being a bad strategy would naturally occur to you.
Not at all. Besides, I've grown accustomed to the work of petty fascists. You know the type, the ones that claim they are all for Constitutional rights, and free speech, but punish views they disagree with. They have no argument, but they do have a mod point.
It's like the "bad cop" situation I mention above. Does the shoe fit?
There have been other attacks previous discussed here as I recall, such as using power fluctuations or timing attacks, and so on, as cribs to retrieve a key. It appears this sort of attack that exploits the characteristics of the system performing the encryption will continue to be an attack vector of growing importance.
Abstract. By carefully measuring the amount of time required to perform private key operations, attackers may be able to find fixed Diffie-Hellman exponents, factor RSA keys, and break other cryptosystems. Against a vulnerable system, the attack is computationally inexpensive and often requires only known ciphertext. Actual systems are potentially at risk, including cryptographic tokens, network-based cryptosystems, and other applications where attackers can make reasonably accurate timing measurements. Techniques for preventing the attack for RSA and Diffie-Hellman are presented. Some cryptosystems will need to be revised to protect against the attack, and new protocols and algorithms may need to incorporate measures to prevent timing attacks.
This lab will demonstrate how power analysis of cryptographic hardware can reveal the key. We will be using basic electronic measurement tools such as oscilloscopes to demonstrate this side-channel attack.
You will be using a small hardware board (fig. 1) with a generic microprocessor programmed to perform DES encryption and decryption. The scenario is that you are the attacker and want to find out the secret key stored inside the board. There is no way of getting to the key directly, so you will need to perform a side-channel attack by measuring the power consumption of the board while the algorithm is running. The hardware board also allows the user to load a custom key in order to compare the power consumption.
And to think that there were people poopooing NSA for pulling cables and servers that Snowden had access to. More attack vectors for everybody!
A source within the telecom industry explained to Ars that active cables are commonly used at data rates above 5Gbps. These cables contain tiny chips at either end that are calibrated to the attenuation and dispersion properties of the wire between them. Compensating for these properties "greatly improves the signal-to-noise ratio" for high-bandwidth data transmission.
This is what we need - more crackpot theories of infection/subterfuge vectors to keep 'em busy.
If so, this is definitely the right place to get them.
Unfortunately there are way more crackpot theories about what NSA are up to than there are about new attack vectors. Someone needs to step up production of the crackpot attack vectors. Any takers?
"The overwhelming majority of police are, frankly, pretty good folk who actually enjoy serving the public."
Ah, no. Good cops cover for bad cops, and that makes them bad cops. No such thing as a good cop.
No, the good cops report the bad cops, and the bad cops retaliate. It's an age old story.
Similar thing with Slashdot moderation. There are some people that moderate fairly, based on the facts or how good the argument is. There are way too many that moderate based on personal petty grievances or disagreement with position. One example, there have been a number of posts that were death wishes directed towards me that received anywhere from a +1 to +3 moderation whereas a reply pointing out the hate is -1 troll.
I wonder how many of those people are self-aware enough to realize the debased activity they participate in? Certainly they would complain if it was directed towards them, and yet they seemingly have no problem performing that sort of unethical activity. It's a human problem. There is a lot of "go along to get along" in the world, and the world. The police and Slashdot's population are no different in that regard.
They clearly had fun writing that for at least the exercise in wordsmithing alone. I imagine it must also be satisfying to banish your tormentors to their judgment. Unfortunately there didn't appear to be a place reserved for trolls.
In common with other surveys, this suggests that public opinion worldwide has recoiled from Mr Bush. The US President is still the leader of the free world, yet the free world is less inclined to approve of him.
Presidential recruitment is a major issue in American politics. The president is considered to be the leader of the free world and the chance to become America's president despite your background neatly fits in with this concept.
I will admit that President Obama and changing conditions may be altering that.
It's not necessarily a question of social hierarchy, but of organizational hierarchy and role. Government, universities, corporations, pretty much any organization is going to have at least a hand full of positions that have a particular set of legal responsibilities and powers if they exist as a legally organized corporate entity. For example the president and secretary of an organization have such a legally responsible role. Organizational hierarchies are a fact in government and the military. It is also true that those institutions, especially government, have powers that you don't as a private individual. Some of those powers have a direct effect on your life and ability to navigate society.
Acknowledging that isn't a "profoundly authoritarian world view" but a simple accommodation of fact, of reality. If you are unable to do that, the problem is going to be one on your part, not that of others. It doesn't make you any more free, powerful, independent, wise, or intelligent to refuse acknowledging that fact. If anything is may mean that you have adopting fringe thinking that could lead to significant problems in dealing with society, and may lead to criminal prosecution if taken far enough.
“ Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. ” — G.K. Chesterton
Will the live performance of instrumental musicians also become a thing of the past, or will there continue to be a real need for it?.... Regardless of how great today's instrumentalists are musically, there no longer seems to be a market for real musicianship. Even great performing classical musicians and ensembles are becoming scarcer due to faster and cheaper digital music production."
I think my answer stands. There is a place for all digital, of course, including the creation of new music. But there will still be a place for live musicians.
Not quite scott free, despite the fact that President Ford pardoned him. He was forced out of office, losing immense power, prestige, and a useful income. He was publicly humiliated and vilified. His record as president was permanently tarnished. The Republicans faced ugly prospects at the ballot box.
Had that not happened, President Nixon would have had quite a record that both Republicans and Democrats might have respected, especially as time passed.
Useless? Hardly. Even brute forcing takes time. They will still have to pick and choose. And exactly what threat are you trying to protect against?
Do you think that all the new implementations in all these other places will be free of issues? There are still countries today that outlaw encryption. Will anything really change there?
With all of the European countries beefing up their internet surveillance I think you are missing the mark. France, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Italy, and many others will be much more formidable in the near future. The loss of commonality is likely to mean more mistakes, and lowest common denominator. It isn't clear that things will really improve, in fact they may get worse. Just wait till everybody has to implement some future EuroEncryption 2021 as part of a common EU standard, but every country does it differently.
Meanwhile Europe is awash in Russian, Chinese, and Iranian spies to collect all they can.
Depends on the purpose. For just listening to background music, or the radio, probably. Session musicians? Maybe, but live is better. For events in which live musicians add to the prestige, no. And in between?
Marching bands can't really be replaced with digital music. Certainly the British and Russians would never do it for their parades. (Are bagpipes even compatible with digital music?;) . )
There is no replacing a cappella music, such as this, or a barbershop quartets. Many other forms of music would suffer, maybe even be pointless, if they were done without live performers. They are often much of the fun.
Digital is handy for composing though even if you will perform live later.
You know, it's really quite sad how not only you enjoy licking the boots of authority, but you apparently derive special pleasure from humiliating yourself in such a manner in public, with as many reproachful eyes on you as possible. I honestly can't think of any other reason why you keep posting things like these here on Slashdot of all places.
Hmmmm, lets parse that out.
Personal attack:
it's really quite sad how not only you enjoy licking the boots of authority
Personal attack:
but you apparently derive special pleasure from humiliating yourself in such a manner in public
Personal attack:
in such a manner in public with as many reproachful eyes on you as possible
Personal attack:
I honestly can't think of any other reason why you keep posting things like these here on Slashdot of all places.
It's funny, I went through your entire post and it all seems to be all personal attacks. You don't make any arguments or provide any useful facts. Is that what you intended to do? It doesn't seem a very useful thing to be doing. I thought this web site was supposed to be visited by geeks and people of above average intelligence that might have something useful to say? You don't really seem to have risen to the challenge there.
Oh, and don't worry, I don't respect your opinion enough for your views to be of any concern to me, especially when you make posts like that.
Lack of trust goes down the entire cryptography academic/testing/science/sales/code US/UK branding.
Few have faith in US or UK gov testing of US or UK cryptography and the list covers a few sections of US and UK exports:
US or UK academic teaching of US or UK cryptography?
US or UK press reporting on US or UK cryptography?
US or UK brands testing of US or UK export quality cryptography?
US or UK brands selling of US or UK export quality cryptography?.... Thanks to Snowden, a lot of costly junk encryption can now be fixed and networks secured around the world
You've made a lot of assertions there, little of which was connected to my post, and some of which seem to contradict what Snowden revealed.
Snowden has said that properly implement cryptography is still good, and not easily broken.
Although I prefer to be civil, your comments on teaching, reports, testing, and selling seem to border on FUD. Where has there been any indictment of teaching in the US or UK? Where has there been a real indictment of the reporting? It certainly isn't had to find reports of the rumors and suspicions. Selling is selling, that doesn't change.
There has been much speculation about the weakening of algorithms, but no real proof, only theories and fear. Bruce Schneier has said that there is nothing in the Snowden leaks to show that NSA has in fact weakened the encryption. What the NSA has probably done is either brute force it, or go around it. That would be consistent with Snowden's statement that encryption is still OK.
As far as all this reimplementation that you are looking for, it seems to me that will create many more new opportunities for NSA. There will be implementation errors, and new ways to misconfigure things. So the likelihood is that there will be more junk in the future to replace good hardware and software now.
You wrote a great line, but there is little reality to it. Snowden isn't stock, he is a man that made some fateful decisions. After stealing massive amounts of highly classified documents he fled the country. He is now trapped in Russia, and that will be difficult to change. The President has said no to amnesty for Snowden, that he is facing prosecution for espionage. His passport has been canceled, and the only way the US State Department will provide him papers to travel is for a one way trip home. In the last day or so, Snowden wrote an open letter to the people of Brazil, offering to help investigate US spying in Brazil in exchange for asylum. If it wasn't clear before, that is essentially a public announcement that he is willing to sell out his country.
Rather than winning, Snowden is bringing about what he said he wants to avoid, which is a world filled by surveillance. More and more countries are beefing up their intelligence agencies and internet surveillance capabilities as a result of his revelations. Russia is one of those countries - they have passed new regulations that will enhance their ability for internal and internet spying to begin implementing some of the capabilities that he revealed. (That is especially ironic since now Snowden is trapped in Russia for at least the time being and the Russians are using the blueprints that he provided to enhance their spying. He is hoisted on his own petard. )
Diplomatic relations among many nations are now strained due to his revelations. Indonesia recalled its ambassador from Australia. The US and Germany are at loggerheads over intelligence cooperation. The US and the EU are have difficulties. As a result of these diplomatic problems there is growing mistrust among many nations in Europe, and how do they react? By reducing or cutting cooperation with allies and beefing up their own intelligence agencies and surveillance capabilities. They do this to both compensate for the loss of cooperation among agencies and as a defensive measure due to the mistrust caused by Snowden's leaks. Chancellor Merkel has brought a former head of intelligence into her government as a direct response to the German - American problems. France is significantly increasing its intelligence powers. We have already mentioned Russia. Finland is planning to increase their intelligence capabilities. The list goes on and on.
Of course this all plays to Russia's advantage. More than a few former Soviet block intelligence officers believe that Snowden is a Russian asset. He was certainly in touch with both Russia and its intelligence services long before it was publicly acknowledged. The Russian government said that it was surprised by Snowden showing up there, when in fact he stayed at the Russian consulate while he was in Hong Kong, and even had his birthday party there.
As to the US, there has been one preliminary lower court victory for 2 (two) people, and that has been delayed to allow for an appeal. The legal commentary (by actual lawyers) that I have seen on that "victory" makes it look like a poor bet as an end state for the long run.
Professor Kerr is a nationally recognized scholar of criminal procedure and computer crime law. His many articles have appeared in top journals including the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Stanford Law Review. Professor Kerr’s articles have been cited in over 100 judicial opinions, including decisions by the United States Supreme Court and all of the regional U.S. Courts of Appeals. In a recent stud
But are you going to deny that the President of the United States hasn't been long referred to as the nation's leader? That is the role of the executive. Neither the Congress nor the Courts can fulfill that role. If you disagree, I think you need to build a case. Simple assertion won't cut it as a counterargument to historical practice that is based on practical reality.
It isn't the NSA that is destroying the economy but rather unwise policies in Washington, mainly economic and regulatory. Although this administration is driving off the road on more than one issue.
The thing that is out of control is the hysteria about the NSA. The NSA itself is probably doing little different than it was 5 years ago when there didn't seem to be much of anybody saying that things were out of control, at least about the NSA.
It is one thing to respect the Constitution when you agree with what it says, but will you still respect the Constitution if it turns out to say and mean something that you don't expect, that you disagree with? That has happened many times before. That sort of thing can happen when you take the text of the Constitution and legal precedent and apply it to a situation in real life, or when new questions arise. Then you have a test to see how devoted you are to the Constitution.
There was a day years ago when some in the US fought what they considered to be tyranny by the Federal government that was crushing what they considered to be their rights under the Constitution. Their leader made a declaration that has become famous, or infamous, as you will, as to their stand. Do you think they were any less certain than you about their stand? What was the outcome of that? -- The President's address
Obama thought he has become the KING of the Americans.
Obama is but one of the civil servants whose salaries are being paid by the American taxpayers.
Although I am no great fan of President Obama, generally, and wish it was someone else, you nonetheless have that quite wrong. He isn't a "civil servant." Civil servants are hired help of the Executive branch of government.
President Obama is the President of the United States of America, leader of the country, a position long known as leader of the Free World, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, the man empowered to authorize the launch of nuclear weapons, the head of the executive branch of the United States, the man who appoints the heads of the executive departments with the advice and consent of the Senate, the man who appoints Ambassadors, and the highest elected official in the country - one of only two national offices. His signature or acquiescence is generally required for bills passed by Congress to become law, otherwise he can block them unless the Congress musters 2/3 majority vote to override him, which rarely happens.
He isn't king, but as President he wields the highest authority of the executive branch. When backed by Congress he has enormous power.
You aren't his boss, he isn't a shoeshine boy that you can bark at. If you voted, you helped elect him, but that is past now. He has the office, and there is no recall. He can only be removed before his term expires for high crimes and misdemeanors as charged in the House and tried in the Senate. Although the Constitution and the courts are a key check on his power, the Congress is key. So far the country seems content on maintaining a Democratic Senate, which ensures he will have plenty of leverage to enact the unwise policies of his party.
It would be great if you started getting this sort of stuff right, you sound like you are howling at the moon.
Regarding your first line regarding Iraq lying and cheating, yes, that is correct.
As to your second line, yes, I am openly and directly disputing the assertion that the US supplied Iraq with Weapons of Mass Destruction. To the best of my knowledge that is false. The closest that you can get to the US supplying Iraq with WMD as far as I know is that the US allowed the export of some dual use materials that had legitimate industrial uses, as well as some samples of biological pathogens intended to be shared for medical research and vaccines. But none of that constituted actual WMDs. If you have hard evidence of something other than that I would be interested in seeing it.
Experts say that Iraq has the largest chemical weapons program in the Third World, developed entirely with the aid of foreign firms, especially those from West Germany. Iraq can presently produce up to 700 tons of chemical warfare agents per year, according to these estimates, but its capacity is expected to increase sizeably in the 1990s. There are at least two plants at Samarra where Iraq produces mustard gas and the nerve agents tabun and sarin; and two more at Fallujah, where Iraq reportedly is building a manufacturing complex for "precursors" -- the ingredients used for nerve gas. Experts say that Iraq also has built a research facility for biological warfare at Salman Pak.
You might think you're screwed if you're on Linux or MacOS, but there is some hope. There is talk of doing a "poor country cousin" version called Minnie Perl Bob for them with a "modified" interface. They should probably move the price tag off the hat.
Slashdot Mirror
You do realize that not every story has to be about the NSA, don't you?
Couldn't we have just a few without the crackpot comments?
LOL .... You flatter yourself, really. You just go along the way you are with your "superior intellect." I expect at some point the flaws in your understanding will become clear to you. I just hope you survive the incident. I'll give you a crib, if you haven't read the article I linked to above, you might want to do that at some point. It points out a strategy you will want to avoid. I doubt that the understanding of that being a bad strategy would naturally occur to you.
Cheers
Not at all. Besides, I've grown accustomed to the work of petty fascists. You know the type, the ones that claim they are all for Constitutional rights, and free speech, but punish views they disagree with. They have no argument, but they do have a mod point.
It's like the "bad cop" situation I mention above. Does the shoe fit?
Pot calls kettle black.
There have been other attacks previous discussed here as I recall, such as using power fluctuations or timing attacks, and so on, as cribs to retrieve a key. It appears this sort of attack that exploits the characteristics of the system performing the encryption will continue to be an attack vector of growing importance.
Timing Attacks on Implementations of Diffie-Hellman, RSA, DSS, and Other Systems
Abstract. By carefully measuring the amount of time required to perform private key operations, attackers may be able to find fixed Diffie-Hellman exponents, factor RSA keys, and break other cryptosystems. Against a vulnerable system, the attack is computationally inexpensive and often requires only known ciphertext. Actual systems are potentially at risk, including cryptographic tokens, network-based cryptosystems, and other applications where attackers can make reasonably accurate timing measurements. Techniques for preventing the attack for RSA and Diffie-Hellman are presented. Some cryptosystems will need to be revised to protect against the attack, and new protocols and algorithms may need to incorporate measures to prevent timing attacks.
Breaking DES with side-channel attacks
This lab will demonstrate how power analysis of cryptographic hardware can reveal the key. We will be using basic electronic measurement tools such as oscilloscopes to demonstrate this side-channel attack.
You will be using a small hardware board (fig. 1) with a generic microprocessor programmed to perform DES encryption and decryption. The scenario is that you are the attacker and want to find out the secret key stored inside the board. There is no way of getting to the key directly, so you will need to perform a side-channel attack by measuring the power consumption of the board while the algorithm is running. The hardware board also allows the user to load a custom key in order to compare the power consumption.
And to think that there were people poopooing NSA for pulling cables and servers that Snowden had access to. More attack vectors for everybody!
The technology inside Apple’s $50 Thunderbolt cable
A source within the telecom industry explained to Ars that active cables are commonly used at data rates above 5Gbps. These cables contain tiny chips at either end that are calibrated to the attenuation and dispersion properties of the wire between them. Compensating for these properties "greatly improves the signal-to-noise ratio" for high-bandwidth data transmission.
This is what we need - more crackpot theories of infection/subterfuge vectors to keep 'em busy.
If so, this is definitely the right place to get them.
Unfortunately there are way more crackpot theories about what NSA are up to than there are about new attack vectors. Someone needs to step up production of the crackpot attack vectors. Any takers?
Another "moderator" to the rescue.
Ah, no. Good cops cover for bad cops, and that makes them bad cops. No such thing as a good cop.
No, the good cops report the bad cops, and the bad cops retaliate. It's an age old story.
Similar thing with Slashdot moderation. There are some people that moderate fairly, based on the facts or how good the argument is. There are way too many that moderate based on personal petty grievances or disagreement with position. One example, there have been a number of posts that were death wishes directed towards me that received anywhere from a +1 to +3 moderation whereas a reply pointing out the hate is -1 troll.
I wonder how many of those people are self-aware enough to realize the debased activity they participate in? Certainly they would complain if it was directed towards them, and yet they seemingly have no problem performing that sort of unethical activity. It's a human problem. There is a lot of "go along to get along" in the world, and the world. The police and Slashdot's population are no different in that regard.
I don't think pulling people over for research is a reasonable use of police power. Actual enforcement, maybe, but not for research.
Why don't they just put a spit cup at toll booths?
They clearly had fun writing that for at least the exercise in wordsmithing alone. I imagine it must also be satisfying to banish your tormentors to their judgment. Unfortunately there didn't appear to be a place reserved for trolls.
Some other Infernos:
Inferno - Fun read.
Disco Inferno - Which Apple had fun with in this commercial.
Some people like this: The Towering Inferno Trailer
Apparently your education suffered at some point.
Anti-Bush but not anti-American
In common with other surveys, this suggests that public opinion worldwide has recoiled from Mr Bush. The US President is still the leader of the free world, yet the free world is less inclined to approve of him.
Presidential Recruitment
Presidential recruitment is a major issue in American politics. The president is considered to be the leader of the free world and the chance to become America's president despite your background neatly fits in with this concept.
I will admit that President Obama and changing conditions may be altering that.
It's not necessarily a question of social hierarchy, but of organizational hierarchy and role. Government, universities, corporations, pretty much any organization is going to have at least a hand full of positions that have a particular set of legal responsibilities and powers if they exist as a legally organized corporate entity. For example the president and secretary of an organization have such a legally responsible role. Organizational hierarchies are a fact in government and the military. It is also true that those institutions, especially government, have powers that you don't as a private individual. Some of those powers have a direct effect on your life and ability to navigate society.
Acknowledging that isn't a "profoundly authoritarian world view" but a simple accommodation of fact, of reality. If you are unable to do that, the problem is going to be one on your part, not that of others. It doesn't make you any more free, powerful, independent, wise, or intelligent to refuse acknowledging that fact. If anything is may mean that you have adopting fringe thinking that could lead to significant problems in dealing with society, and may lead to criminal prosecution if taken far enough.
Example: What is a Sovereign Citizen?
“ Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. ”
— G.K. Chesterton
Let's revisit part of the question:
Will the live performance of instrumental musicians also become a thing of the past, or will there continue to be a real need for it? .... Regardless of how great today's instrumentalists are musically, there no longer seems to be a market for real musicianship. Even great performing classical musicians and ensembles are becoming scarcer due to faster and cheaper digital music production."
I think my answer stands. There is a place for all digital, of course, including the creation of new music. But there will still be a place for live musicians.
Not quite scott free, despite the fact that President Ford pardoned him. He was forced out of office, losing immense power, prestige, and a useful income. He was publicly humiliated and vilified. His record as president was permanently tarnished. The Republicans faced ugly prospects at the ballot box.
Had that not happened, President Nixon would have had quite a record that both Republicans and Democrats might have respected, especially as time passed.
Useless? Hardly. Even brute forcing takes time. They will still have to pick and choose. And exactly what threat are you trying to protect against?
Do you think that all the new implementations in all these other places will be free of issues? There are still countries today that outlaw encryption. Will anything really change there?
With all of the European countries beefing up their internet surveillance I think you are missing the mark. France, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Italy, and many others will be much more formidable in the near future. The loss of commonality is likely to mean more mistakes, and lowest common denominator. It isn't clear that things will really improve, in fact they may get worse. Just wait till everybody has to implement some future EuroEncryption 2021 as part of a common EU standard, but every country does it differently.
Meanwhile Europe is awash in Russian, Chinese, and Iranian spies to collect all they can.
I seem to recall that Blackberries use a central server for at least part of their functionality. Are you quite sure about that?
Certainly internet linked computers existed 5 years ago.
Depends on the purpose. For just listening to background music, or the radio, probably. Session musicians? Maybe, but live is better. For events in which live musicians add to the prestige, no. And in between?
If I'm gong to pay money to see the The Typewriter, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, or Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, I want a real symphony orchestra (and preferably real canons for the 1812). No digital music will replace someone like Victor Borge (RIP).
Marching bands can't really be replaced with digital music. Certainly the British and Russians would never do it for their parades. (Are bagpipes even compatible with digital music? ;) . )
There is no replacing a cappella music, such as this, or a barbershop quartets. Many other forms of music would suffer, maybe even be pointless, if they were done without live performers. They are often much of the fun.
Digital is handy for composing though even if you will perform live later.
You know, it's really quite sad how not only you enjoy licking the boots of authority, but you apparently derive special pleasure from humiliating yourself in such a manner in public, with as many reproachful eyes on you as possible. I honestly can't think of any other reason why you keep posting things like these here on Slashdot of all places.
Hmmmm, lets parse that out.
Personal attack:
it's really quite sad how not only you enjoy licking the boots of authority
Personal attack:
but you apparently derive special pleasure from humiliating yourself in such a manner in public
Personal attack:
in such a manner in public with as many reproachful eyes on you as possible
Personal attack:
I honestly can't think of any other reason why you keep posting things like these here on Slashdot of all places.
It's funny, I went through your entire post and it all seems to be all personal attacks. You don't make any arguments or provide any useful facts. Is that what you intended to do? It doesn't seem a very useful thing to be doing. I thought this web site was supposed to be visited by geeks and people of above average intelligence that might have something useful to say? You don't really seem to have risen to the challenge there.
Oh, and don't worry, I don't respect your opinion enough for your views to be of any concern to me, especially when you make posts like that.
Lack of trust goes down the entire cryptography academic/testing/science/sales/code US/UK branding. ....
Few have faith in US or UK gov testing of US or UK cryptography and the list covers a few sections of US and UK exports:
US or UK academic teaching of US or UK cryptography?
US or UK press reporting on US or UK cryptography?
US or UK brands testing of US or UK export quality cryptography?
US or UK brands selling of US or UK export quality cryptography?
Thanks to Snowden, a lot of costly junk encryption can now be fixed and networks secured around the world
You've made a lot of assertions there, little of which was connected to my post, and some of which seem to contradict what Snowden revealed.
Snowden has said that properly implement cryptography is still good, and not easily broken.
Although I prefer to be civil, your comments on teaching, reports, testing, and selling seem to border on FUD. Where has there been any indictment of teaching in the US or UK? Where has there been a real indictment of the reporting? It certainly isn't had to find reports of the rumors and suspicions. Selling is selling, that doesn't change.
There has been much speculation about the weakening of algorithms, but no real proof, only theories and fear. Bruce Schneier has said that there is nothing in the Snowden leaks to show that NSA has in fact weakened the encryption. What the NSA has probably done is either brute force it, or go around it. That would be consistent with Snowden's statement that encryption is still OK.
As far as all this reimplementation that you are looking for, it seems to me that will create many more new opportunities for NSA. There will be implementation errors, and new ways to misconfigure things. So the likelihood is that there will be more junk in the future to replace good hardware and software now.
If Snowden is a stock, I want to short him.
You wrote a great line, but there is little reality to it. Snowden isn't stock, he is a man that made some fateful decisions. After stealing massive amounts of highly classified documents he fled the country. He is now trapped in Russia, and that will be difficult to change. The President has said no to amnesty for Snowden, that he is facing prosecution for espionage. His passport has been canceled, and the only way the US State Department will provide him papers to travel is for a one way trip home. In the last day or so, Snowden wrote an open letter to the people of Brazil, offering to help investigate US spying in Brazil in exchange for asylum. If it wasn't clear before, that is essentially a public announcement that he is willing to sell out his country.
Rather than winning, Snowden is bringing about what he said he wants to avoid, which is a world filled by surveillance. More and more countries are beefing up their intelligence agencies and internet surveillance capabilities as a result of his revelations. Russia is one of those countries - they have passed new regulations that will enhance their ability for internal and internet spying to begin implementing some of the capabilities that he revealed. (That is especially ironic since now Snowden is trapped in Russia for at least the time being and the Russians are using the blueprints that he provided to enhance their spying. He is hoisted on his own petard. )
Diplomatic relations among many nations are now strained due to his revelations. Indonesia recalled its ambassador from Australia. The US and Germany are at loggerheads over intelligence cooperation. The US and the EU are have difficulties. As a result of these diplomatic problems there is growing mistrust among many nations in Europe, and how do they react? By reducing or cutting cooperation with allies and beefing up their own intelligence agencies and surveillance capabilities. They do this to both compensate for the loss of cooperation among agencies and as a defensive measure due to the mistrust caused by Snowden's leaks. Chancellor Merkel has brought a former head of intelligence into her government as a direct response to the German - American problems. France is significantly increasing its intelligence powers. We have already mentioned Russia. Finland is planning to increase their intelligence capabilities. The list goes on and on.
Of course this all plays to Russia's advantage. More than a few former Soviet block intelligence officers believe that Snowden is a Russian asset. He was certainly in touch with both Russia and its intelligence services long before it was publicly acknowledged. The Russian government said that it was surprised by Snowden showing up there, when in fact he stayed at the Russian consulate while he was in Hong Kong, and even had his birthday party there.
As to the US, there has been one preliminary lower court victory for 2 (two) people, and that has been delayed to allow for an appeal. The legal commentary (by actual lawyers) that I have seen on that "victory" makes it look like a poor bet as an end state for the long run.
Preliminary Thoughts on Judge Leon’s Opinion by Orin Kerr
The Procedural Problems With Judge Leon’s NSA Ruling by Orin Kerr
Orin S. Kerr - Biographical Sketch
Professor Kerr is a nationally recognized scholar of criminal procedure and computer crime law. His many articles have appeared in top journals including the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Stanford Law Review. Professor Kerr’s articles have been cited in over 100 judicial opinions, including decisions by the United States Supreme Court and all of the regional U.S. Courts of Appeals. In a recent stud
Nobody said that he was the "boss of you."
But are you going to deny that the President of the United States hasn't been long referred to as the nation's leader? That is the role of the executive. Neither the Congress nor the Courts can fulfill that role. If you disagree, I think you need to build a case. Simple assertion won't cut it as a counterargument to historical practice that is based on practical reality.
I think you quite have that right.
The NSA is destroying the US economy ...
Look, it's getting out of control. ...
RESPECT THE CONSTITUTION!
It isn't the NSA that is destroying the economy but rather unwise policies in Washington, mainly economic and regulatory. Although this administration is driving off the road on more than one issue.
The thing that is out of control is the hysteria about the NSA. The NSA itself is probably doing little different than it was 5 years ago when there didn't seem to be much of anybody saying that things were out of control, at least about the NSA.
It is one thing to respect the Constitution when you agree with what it says, but will you still respect the Constitution if it turns out to say and mean something that you don't expect, that you disagree with? That has happened many times before. That sort of thing can happen when you take the text of the Constitution and legal precedent and apply it to a situation in real life, or when new questions arise. Then you have a test to see how devoted you are to the Constitution.
There was a day years ago when some in the US fought what they considered to be tyranny by the Federal government that was crushing what they considered to be their rights under the Constitution. Their leader made a declaration that has become famous, or infamous, as you will, as to their stand. Do you think they were any less certain than you about their stand? What was the outcome of that? -- The President's address
Judge Leon Enjoins NSA Telephony Metadata Program in Larry Klayman Lawsuit
Obama forgot who his bosses are.
Obama thought he has become the KING of the Americans.
Obama is but one of the civil servants whose salaries are being paid by the American taxpayers.
Although I am no great fan of President Obama, generally, and wish it was someone else, you nonetheless have that quite wrong. He isn't a "civil servant." Civil servants are hired help of the Executive branch of government.
President Obama is the President of the United States of America, leader of the country, a position long known as leader of the Free World, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, the man empowered to authorize the launch of nuclear weapons, the head of the executive branch of the United States, the man who appoints the heads of the executive departments with the advice and consent of the Senate, the man who appoints Ambassadors, and the highest elected official in the country - one of only two national offices. His signature or acquiescence is generally required for bills passed by Congress to become law, otherwise he can block them unless the Congress musters 2/3 majority vote to override him, which rarely happens.
He isn't king, but as President he wields the highest authority of the executive branch. When backed by Congress he has enormous power.
You aren't his boss, he isn't a shoeshine boy that you can bark at. If you voted, you helped elect him, but that is past now. He has the office, and there is no recall. He can only be removed before his term expires for high crimes and misdemeanors as charged in the House and tried in the Senate. Although the Constitution and the courts are a key check on his power, the Congress is key. So far the country seems content on maintaining a Democratic Senate, which ensures he will have plenty of leverage to enact the unwise policies of his party.
It would be great if you started getting this sort of stuff right, you sound like you are howling at the moon.
Regarding your first line regarding Iraq lying and cheating, yes, that is correct.
As to your second line, yes, I am openly and directly disputing the assertion that the US supplied Iraq with Weapons of Mass Destruction. To the best of my knowledge that is false. The closest that you can get to the US supplying Iraq with WMD as far as I know is that the US allowed the export of some dual use materials that had legitimate industrial uses, as well as some samples of biological pathogens intended to be shared for medical research and vaccines. But none of that constituted actual WMDs. If you have hard evidence of something other than that I would be interested in seeing it.
Chemical
Experts say that Iraq has the largest chemical weapons program in the Third World, developed entirely with the aid of foreign firms, especially those from West Germany. Iraq can presently produce up to 700 tons of chemical warfare agents per year, according to these estimates, but its capacity is expected to increase sizeably in the 1990s. There are at least two plants at Samarra where Iraq produces mustard gas and the nerve agents tabun and sarin; and two more at Fallujah, where Iraq reportedly is building a manufacturing complex for "precursors" -- the ingredients used for nerve gas. Experts say that Iraq also has built a research facility for biological warfare at Salman Pak.
CIA report says Egypt helped Iraq build chemical weapons
The Evolution of Chemical and Biological Weapons in Egypt - ( I am indebted to the troll Anachragnome for this link)
You might think you're screwed if you're on Linux or MacOS, but there is some hope. There is talk of doing a "poor country cousin" version called Minnie Perl Bob for them with a "modified" interface. They should probably move the price tag off the hat.