Posted on 06/20/2013 8:48:59 PM PDT by chessplayer
...The simple fact that the data is encrypted and that the NSA wants to crack it may be enough to let the agency keep it indefinitely.
...In other words, privacy advocates may be facing a nasty Catch-22: Fail to encrypt your communications, and they’re vulnerable to any eavesdropper’s surveillance. But encrypt them, and they become legally subject to eavesdropping by the most powerful surveillance agency in the world.
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“Won’t stop them, but will slow them down as they try to “crack” randomness.”
As someone with cryptology experience, I say they can decrypt anything, but you are right, computer cycles are not free and they would need lots more of them to try to make sense of random garbage. Trying to parse it would be expensive.
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