The Biggest Threat to Bitcoin: The New American NSA Datacenter - page 2.

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Quote from: cypherdoc on March 17, 2012, 10:59:29 AM

etotheipi seems pretty well versed in quantum computing and he works in a physics lab in Maryland. you'd think he'd be pretty up to date on this stuff and he isn't worried about that kinda stuff for 10-20 yrs.

Don't tell me that the government and NSA are smart enough to take advantage of that fact by building the infrastructure now to be prepared for quantum code breaking down the road.

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etotheipi seems pretty well versed in quantum computing and he works in a physics lab in Maryland. you'd think he'd be pretty up to date on this stuff and he isn't worried about that kinda stuff for 10-20 yrs.

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With traditional bruteforcing cracking would still be unfeasible,
but maybe they have some crazy quantum or side channel stuff we dont know about.

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i'm not an expert by any means in this area but i thought it was interesting the way the article was written.

basically the author says the NSA has the capability to do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, wherever it wants, and to whomever it wants with the additional implication that money is no object.

color me skeptical and would appreciate the comments of those whose technical knowledge or connections is up to par to comment on this.

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on March 17, 2012, 10:02:29 AM

Quote from: hazek on March 17, 2012, 09:53:48 AM

Quote from: Liberate on March 17, 2012, 09:40:53 AM

mmmmmmm imagine the Ghash's, but there more likely to use it for cracking pgp and truecrypt

How vulnerable is pgp and truecrypt to brute force attack by so much hashing power?

We're in luck! The NSA will never be able to crack passwords provided by blondes.

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During a recent password audit, it was found that a blonde was using the following password:

"MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento"
When asked why she had such a long password, she said
she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters
long and include at least one capital.

ROFLMAO!

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mmmmmmm imagine the Ghash's, but there more likely to use it for cracking pgp and truecrypt

Since they will just have a lot of parrallel processing power, and have not discovered any real vulnerability in those protocols, it seems it will be enough for truecrypt and gpg users to double they maximum key size and be done with it. As I understand it, the difficulty to crack them increases exponentially with longer keys.

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Quote from: hazek on March 17, 2012, 09:53:48 AM

Quote from: Liberate on March 17, 2012, 09:40:53 AM

mmmmmmm imagine the Ghash's, but there more likely to use it for cracking pgp and truecrypt

How vulnerable is pgp and truecrypt to brute force attack by so much hashing power?

We're in luck! The NSA will never be able to crack passwords provided by blondes.

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During a recent password audit, it was found that a blonde was using the following password:

"MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento"
When asked why she had such a long password, she said
she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters
long and include at least one capital.

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Quote from: Liberate on March 17, 2012, 09:40:53 AM

mmmmmmm imagine the Ghash's, but there more likely to use it for cracking pgp and truecrypt

How vulnerable is pgp and truecrypt to brute force attack by so much hashing power?

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Quote from: Jon on March 17, 2012, 08:56:11 AM

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

From this article, it's clear the main goal of the newest datacenter in NSA's line is to crack high-level encryption. The hardware that will be in this is unclear. What is clear is that the budget for this monstrosity is over $2 billion; more than enough monetary power to bring Bitcoin to hell and back.

Stay aware.

$2 Billion Dollars!!! That's pretty smart of them to share with our enemies exactly where the nerve center is located if this Cyber Cold War we're currently in ever escalates.

From the same source: Google Asks NSA to Help Secure Its Network

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mmmmmmm imagine the Ghash's, but there more likely to use it for cracking pgp and truecrypt

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

From this article, it's clear the main goal of the newest datacenter in NSA's line is to crack high-level encryption. The hardware that will be in this is unclear. What is clear is that the budget for this monstrosity is over $2 billion; more than enough monetary power to bring Bitcoin to hell and back.

Stay aware.

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