Quote from: empoweoqwj on December 25, 2013, 07:56:02 AM

Quote from: DavidZ on December 25, 2013, 07:48:39 AM

Quote from: empoweoqwj on December 25, 2013, 05:27:51 AM

Quote from: bluemeanie1 on December 24, 2013, 11:51:07 PM

Quote from: DavidZ on December 24, 2013, 11:24:44 PM

The web site is back up, fascinating article. Despicable conduct by the "folks" at the NSA and I'm glad their scam has been exposed thanks to the genius and heroism of Edward Snowden.

ya, It's really incredible that they are running this enormous scam right under the public's noses. I had even stated on here a number of months ago that our crypto standards are sabotaged by the NSA, the general response from the people on here was that this was a nonsense 'conspiracy theory'.

The real story is starting to come to light, that the field of cryptography is something like a scientific con game.

But what to do?

Having studied computer science I can tell you that cryptography is not a con. Strong encryption is entirely possible; just need to be wary of backdoors.

As to what you can do: Hire a trusted programmer to write your own cryptography application.

Any idea how much something like TrueCrypt would cost to write from scratch? Wink

A smart uni student should be able to bash out an implementation of one of the many encryption open standards in a few months. It just wouldn't have all the fancy (yet useless) "bells and whistles" one get with commercial software.