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How did the NSA hack our emails?

Numberphile

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  • Presented by Edward Frenkel, Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Edward Frenkel explains the mathematics of elliptic curve cryptography and how the NSA introduced a backdoor into a random number generator.

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What people say. Recommended as an accessible explanation of elliptic curve cryptography and the NSA Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor.

u/comscisin r/compsci • Recommends

On “I need CompSci folks as technical advisors for a screenplay I'm writing. Anyone interested?”

I just watched a video on this. It also explains how the NSA managed to hack into user data from many companies. Here is the link: NSA Video (YouTube) A brief overview: The government did a study on elliptical curve encryption a long time ago. They published the method that they used, making them public info. Many companies were monetarily persuaded to use this system, which requires each company to generate 2 unique keys. Fast forward to today. The NSA, now knowing the method used to encrypt only has to crack the keys, which they are more than capable of doing. The companies are given a choice comply or we'll do it ourselves. I wanted to explain that so you can use the video to focus on…
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u/mercalliin r/compsci • Recommends

On “ELI5: Elliptic curve cryptography”

link to this video Found this awhile back during the initial Snowden links, best video I have found that will ELI5 for you on ECC *edit forgot to mention it starts about 4:00 mins in if you want to skip the NSA info..
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u/outspoken_mutein r/netsec • Recommends

A breakdown on the mathematics behind how the NSA can breakdown our communications/encryption.
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