New Documents on NSA's Cryptanalysis Capabilities

Der Spiegel published a long article today on the NSA’s analysis capabilities against encrypted systems, with a lot of new documents from the Snowden archive.

I’m not going to have time to look at this for a few days. Describe anything interesting you find — with links to the documents — in the comments.

EDITED TO ADD (10/28): This is in conjunction with a presentation by Laura Poitras and Jake Appelbaum at the Chaos Communication Congress.

EDITED TO ADD (1/14): Matthew Green’s comments on the documents. And the Poitras/Appelbaum talk is on YouTube.

Posted on December 28, 2014 at 5:06 PM • 149 Comments