Some Edward Snowden leaks maintain revealed that the NSA and other intelligence agencies can shatter encryption barriers for mass surveillance purposes. It has been theorized that a flaw in encryption used by many Internet services lets the spy agency decrypt HTTPS,SSH, and VPN traffic, or a new paper seems to prove that. Indeed,a massive effort comparable to the attempts of breaking the German Enigma coding machine during the World War II seems to maintain given the NSA the tools required to shatter trillions of secure connections. DON’T MISS: ‘Netflix for pirates’ now streams movies directly to your web browser Researchers Alex Halderman, Nadia Heninger and 12 other coauthors won the best paper at the ACM Conference on Compute
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