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Re: [perpass] Cops hate encryption but the NSA loves it when you use PGP

Nicholas Weaver <nweaver@icsi.berkeley.edu> Sat, 30 January 2016 19:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [perpass] Cops hate encryption but the NSA loves it when you use PGP
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> On Jan 30, 2016, at 11:32 AM, Matthijs R. Koot <matthijs@koot.biz> wrote:
> 
> Hi Stephen,
> 
>> Anyone got a link to Nick's slides/paper?
> 
> Slides (38MB .pdf):
> http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/enigma_weaver.key.pdf
> 
> Paper: does not exist (
> https://twitter.com/ncweaver/status/693516094003281920 ).
> 
> Video (20 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqnKdGnzoh0
> 
> Regards,
> Matthijs

And how the NSA can rip through PGP (like we know they rip through MS2)

https://medium.com/@nweaver/extra-unofficial-xkeyscore-guide-b8513600ad24#.83bkhqx1v


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