Would this not be a fantastic question for the debates? Doubtful that a moderator wants to ask Ms Clinton. Her own behavior suggests she knows hacking exists, but no one around her, including her, seems to think clearly about cyber security—a reason to vote for Trump if there was no other. It’s rather hard to believe there aren’t better encrytion experts workng at NSA. Maybe Code Toad can speak to this?
That’s one thing I’m hoping for — this could be a powerful issue to spring on Hillary. Trump would most likely blindside her.
“Everybody has access to the same encryption algorithms. If we did not, then we would have security by obscurity which always fails eventually.”
Nope. Not even close. The entire purpose of the NSA was to secure our cryptography systems. We all do NOT use the same algorithms.
The phrase “security by obscurity” isn’t what you stated. It means to secure something by keeping it a secret. Our algorithms are not secure because no one knows them. Heck, we could publish them and they would still be secure. We don’t publish them because we don’t want our enemies to use such good stuff. That would make breaking their messages that much harder.
I think asking Hillary about cyber security would be a great line of questions. Trump knows the answers. Hillary violates every rule in the book.