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Compromised codes

Posted on 08/12/2016 7:26:15 AM PDT by rustyboots

A long time ago when I was young I had a job in the military where we were exposed to, used, and changed encryption codes. Compared to today, I assume the methods were primitive, clumsy, and time consuming. This brings us to current events. The use of a private server to handle email for the former Secretary of State may seem to some to be OK, after all, she didn't send many classified emails. But let us assume this, those emails that were unclassified and were sent to her from various people at State and perhaps other places probably has multiple addressees. Now if her server got hacked and those emails were obtained, we now have to look at the possibility that same emails were sent to others, but were encrypted since they went government office to government office. Next, let us assume the bad guys intercepted those encrypted emails. If the same bad guys had the message that was sent to her in the clear, then a brute force approach would allow them to find the same message in the encrypted stream they intercepted. What does this mean? It means they could read every message sent that day using the encryption codes used that day. So, it isn't just her emails that can be read, it could be the whole department and maybe other departments emails that are made available by her choice of communication protocol. Of course, maybe encryption methods have changed and every message sent gets a different code. Maybe the government uses something close to PGP with private and public keys. But just wanted to put this out and see what opinions others may have.


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KEYWORDS: 201608; boozallenhamilton; cybersecurity; cyberwar; cyberwarfare; encryptioncodes; haroldmartin; haroldthomasmartin; nongovserver
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To: rustyboots

That happened NSA,CIA,FBI,SECRET SERVICE

all exposed


41 posted on 08/12/2016 10:15:16 AM PDT by advertising guy ( TRUMP , BUT VERIFY)
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To: GOPJ

No problem, GOPJ. With liberals, it is always someone else’s Ox, until it is THEIRS.


42 posted on 08/12/2016 10:33:14 AM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Grampa Dave

Ah, then I misunderstood you!


43 posted on 08/12/2016 11:57:19 AM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: rustyboots
She did send classified email from her unsecured server. PERIOD. What happened to the 'rumors' of the State Dept being hacked around the same time as Cankles bathroom server? They just forgot all about that? Hell yes we have been compromised. Toss your CEOI in the trash. Its useless except for wiping your ass.
44 posted on 08/12/2016 12:08:34 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: rlmorel

I can’t stand her voice, especially when that bitch gets in “lecture mode”.


45 posted on 08/12/2016 12:45:07 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("We re going to raise taxes on the Middle Class!" - HRC Aug 3, 2016)
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To: LonePalm

No Comment.


46 posted on 08/12/2016 12:45:08 PM PDT by ASA Vet (There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.)
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To: francesco525
Just because they were deleted doesn't mean they can't be recovered from the server or elsewhere.

"Ceterum censeo Hillary esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

47 posted on 08/12/2016 1:10:42 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: Old Yeller
"Code cracker? That’s racist!"


48 posted on 08/12/2016 2:13:40 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((My passion for freedom is stronger than that of the Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.))
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To: The Sons of Liberty

I wrote this many years ago when she was first being thrown around as a possible candidate. I thought you might appreciate it:
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She will never, ever get MEN to vote for her. I am not talking about Rush Limbaugh’s “New Castrati”. I am talking about Normal Men.

Her voice is like chalk on a board. It is the sound etched deep into the primordial areas of Man’s Brain.

It is the sound of a woman who is very, VERY angry at him.

Her voice is shrill...and resonates a perfect, exquisitely awful dissonance at certain frequencies.

Primordial Man first heard that sound when he dragged his filthy, muddy countenance into that clean, dry cave and was lit into by Primordial Woman because he didn’t clean the swamp ooze off of his feet, or the Wooly Mammoth guts off of his malodorous fur skin.

That is the voice of Hillary Clinton. She tries to hide it. Oh, she tries so hard. But no matter how hard she tries, there are times she opens that mouth and every man who has part of that Primordial Man inside him, hears Her voice.

Of course, men with the Primordial woman inside them are just fine with her. They LIKE it.


49 posted on 08/12/2016 4:37:01 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: rlmorel

I always knew I hated her voice but I couldn’t pin down precisely the reasons, except of course that I absolutely despise that bitch. Your breakdown fits her to a T. Thanks.


50 posted on 08/12/2016 7:37:31 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("We re going to raise taxes on the Middle Class!" - HRC Aug 3, 2016)
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To: rustyboots

Interesting you brought this up when you did... lter in Aug 2016, not long after this was posted there was an arrest of an NSA contractor who had stolen a bunch of materials on encryption code.


51 posted on 05/01/2018 3:21:52 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: rustyboots

Not plausible. Any such brute force attack would not need a cleartext and encrypted email to compare. It would simply need any short encrypted email. The reason that attack won’t work is random initialization vectors and other tecchniques that require guessing 2^64 or more IV along with the encryption key. Not feasible, with or without cleartext and encrypted emails to compare.


52 posted on 05/01/2018 3:26:11 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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