Sunday, September 29, 2013

RSA Security warns customers of NSA’s backdoor after further Snowden leaks

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

RSA Security, the juggernaut of security sent an email to its customers to stop using one of the core algorithms that developers use for encrypting communications on the Internet. They admitted that there was a weakness in the algorithm. It seems that this algorithm was developed and pushed for inclusian by the NSA itself, because it knew how to break it.
“In this case, a great deal of effort went into creating this and choosing a structure that happens to be amenable to attack,” says Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist of Cryptography Research.
Slides from a Microsoft presentation in 2007 point out the backdoor:


There is a strong possibility that publicaly available encryption is already broken by the NSA. Watch my exclusive interview with Russia Today to learn more:



Note this is the edited version of the interview. There are things I reveal that Russia Today didn’t want to include on air, such as the NSA’s bigger plot. Luckily, I got ahold of it and am posting it while I still can. Watch the raw, non-censored version of my interview here.
With Unsene, our encrypted messaging and voice calling service, we don’t use this ‘NSA approved’ encryption for precislely this reason and instead have invested in developing our own properity encryption called xAES.
On top of that, the reason that we moved our servers to Iceland is so that the NSA’s laws can’t reach us or your private data.
Learn more about our unique encryption and how it will secure your freedom here. 

Sources: Wired, Reuters, NYT

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