[AusNOG] From across the ditch

[Nick Gale]

I was generalizing not referring to anything specifically. If you take
skype as an example though it uses a 256bit key but it wouldn't be
considered insecure. Key length alone doesn't make the ciphertext secure if
your cipher is weak. If you used a 2048bit key with a substitution cipher
it would not take long to figure out.

All I was pointing out was that people would start developing stronger
encryption methods for comms as companies are forced by governments to work
on breaking them, or, as governments themselves are known to be able to
crack those comms. Also as I said thats not different from today's world
but with laws like this going through or trying to be passed in more
countries it becomes more public and noticeable the developments around
comms encryption as people have an interest in protecting their privacy.


On 25 April 2013 06:23, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au> wrote:

> How is 2048bit key encyrption an arms race?
>
> sent from android
> On Apr 25, 2013 8:22 AM, "Nick Gale" <nickgale at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> All that would happen would be an arms race in encryption/decryption
>> technologies. As one is able to be cracked so another will rise to replace
>> it. Thats not really different than today though but it may just be more
>> apparent.
>>
>> Also people are becoming more aware in general about their security and
>> protecting themselves better. Guberments are starting to realize they are
>> losing the ability to monitor their citizens where necessary by law, (It
>> doesn't help that these same guberments abused the laws in the first place
>> though) and are starting to look at ways to get that control back.
>>
>>
>> On 25 April 2013 06:07, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 24, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
>>>
>>> > requirements for operators to break encyrption
>>>
>>> The encryption stuff as noted in the article (surely it's wrong?) is
>>> both insane and impossible, for all practical purposes - not to mention
>>> highly undesirable.
>>>
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