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To: blackdog

NSA is not scanning messages before encryption or the application of IP security protocols. They might be able to break some, but I don’t think they can break the good 256-bit encryption algorithms.


10 posted on 08/07/2025 7:01:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
I don’t think they can break the good 256-bit encryption algorithms.

I would take the other side of that bet.

12 posted on 08/07/2025 7:41:05 AM PDT by flamberge (The times, they are a' changing.)
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To: MtnClimber
"At least not wittingly"

-James Clapper.

13 posted on 08/07/2025 7:41:59 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: MtnClimber

If they can’t now, they soon will with quantum computers.


17 posted on 08/07/2025 8:12:28 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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