Re: Re: Rise of the Dark Nets   
     By: Khelair to S/370 on Thu Aug 22 2013 14:07:12   
      
   Damn, that was an informative read! That PGP story reminds me of what happened   
   with DES. Basically NSA wanted IBM to reduce the key length in the algorithm. I   
   think I'll look into PGP 2.3a a little more.   
      
   My opinion is that the government will probably promote the crackable   
   algorithms and stay relatively quiet about the impossible ones. Then again,   
   they do get pretty bitchy about the exportation of them, so that could be a   
   good sign as well. I heard somewhere that the goverment was having trouble   
   cracking 256-bit AES so personally I wouldn't use anything less than that as   
   far as AES is concerned. Then again, why would anyone ever use less encryption   
   -) .   
       
   Ouch! I didn't realize SSL and SSH were that insecure. But for now, it would   
   probably be a good idea to monitor network traffic in public to spot possible   
   sniffers. I feel pretty safe with them, but I really don't know too much about   
   SSL or certificates.   
      
   Can't remember much about Blowfish since I usually use MD5 instead, but   
   personally it seems like it was a great algorithm when it came out. But as far   
   as today, it may not be nearly as safe anymore. Of course, thats why we have   
   Twofish! :-)   
      
   Couldn't read the links yet cause I gotta wake up early tomorrow but I have   
   them bookmarked.   
      
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