[ILUG] Echelon exists..so says EU report

[John McCormac]

cybersean3000 at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> Don't forget that source is available for OpenSSH and SSL.  If you
> can compile it, so can anyone.  There is no technology to protect you
> from the NSA.  Proprietary or Open Source, they know about it and can
> get around it.  On a weekly basis, even before this week, the CIA

Just because it can be compiled and the source is freely available does
not guarantee security. Even RSA is based on a theory that it is
difficult to factor large numbers. If someone was to develop a faster
factoring algorithm then RSA encryption could be vulnerable. Even with
PGP, as far as I remember, the core encryption algorithm (that used to
encrypt the data) is not RSA. RSA is used for the keyhandling. In some
cases, who the encrypted e-mail is going to can be far more revealing
than the contents.

Regards...jmcc