“Cryptographers generally accept that the NSA devotes an enormous amount of time and money cracking enemies’ and others’ codes. But the tactics exposed in the newly revealed classified documents – deliberately weakening or installing hidden ‘back doors’ in widely-used encryption protocols – have distressed academics and practitioners alike. Many cryptography experts are groping for a way forward – torn between the need to ferret out back doors the NSA may have hidden over the past decade and the monumental difficulty of updating a security infrastructure deeply embedded in the very fabric of the Internet.”
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