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"All that said, does truly perfect, NSA-proof #encryption exist? Yes, it’s called the one-time pad http://ur1.ca/el21g in which data is encrypted with a single-use pad of the same size by performing an #XOR operation." "There's a problem: in order to use a short-term #key to establish a session, we need to transmit it to another party in #plaintext." @question "What's wrong with that? Isn't that what public key #cryptography is all about? Well, there's a problem: the #NSA has just sniffed the short-term public key that was used to establish a particular session." "building a massive #datacenter in #Utah ... If they find you suspicious enough they want to #archive all your traffic" "When this happens, it means that #anyone (not just the NSA!) who can get their hands on a #quantum computer, and has captured one of your #HTTPS sessions, can break your session and recover the plaintext. Perfect forward #secrecy be damned!" "In order to defeat quantum computers, we wi…
