From tiny acorns mighty oak trees grow – RSA is back in town You better watch out, you better not spam, you better not phish, I'm telling you why: RSA is coming to town. For the 32nd year there's an RSA conference and an estimated 35,000 security folk are converging on San Francisco for an event that has become an icon – in good ways and bad. What started as a few folks meeting in a …
Privacy is getting a boost when it turns out that government spooks (you know, NSA, GCHQ, Five Eyes) seem to think that busting E2EE should be a thing.
Private encryption needs a bit of work, but not that much:
- see work by Steve Schneier
- see work by Daniel Bernstein
- take a look at the gmp library
- think about multiple encryption with random keys
- sign up for the Gmail "app password"
....and then build 3000 lines of (old-fashioned) code in C which can run mostly anywhere....
Pity the spooks who might have to deal with hundreds (thousands?) of separate private encryption schemes........
....instead of a few backdoors (you know....Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp)........
Yup....lots of Prozac prescriptions for the spooks in Fort Meade or Cheltenham.......
So sad....so sad.....
I image that you may be the same AC who has posted several times with a similar style and content over the last month or so about encryption: https://forums.theregister.com/forum/containing/4650508, https://forums.theregister.com/forum/containing/4642663, etc.
>- see work by Steve Schneier
Please, if you are going to post again, get his name right: Bruce Schneier, https://www.schneier.com/
The only obvious Steve I could find with a quick interweb search is a healthcare company exec.
That the USA banned the 'S' in RSA from attending the conference.
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