{"id":908,"date":"2016-12-17T18:47:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T10:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2016-12-23T18:49:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T10:49:57","slug":"how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"How is NSA breaking so much crypto?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has long been speculated that NSA is able to eavesdrop on even encrypted traffic. Researchers think they have <a href=\"https:\/\/freedom-to-tinker.com\/2015\/10\/14\/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto\/\">figured out how<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Snowden documents also hint at some extraordinary capabilities: they show that NSA has built extensive infrastructure to intercept and decrypt VPN traffic and suggest that the agency can decrypt at least some HTTPS and SSH connections on demand.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIt shows that the agency\u2019s budget is on the order of $10 billion a year, with over $1 billion dedicated to computer network exploitation, and several subprograms in the hundreds of millions a year.<br \/>\n&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/freedom-to-tinker.com\/2015\/10\/14\/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto\/\">How is NSA breaking so much crypto?<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In order words, really expensive and dedicated hardware. Something only state actors can afford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has long been speculated that NSA is able to eavesdrop on even encrypted traffic. Researchers think they have figured out how. The Snowden documents also hint at some extraordinary capabilities: they show that NSA has built extensive infrastructure to intercept and decrypt VPN traffic and suggest that the agency can decrypt at least some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}