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Encrypted HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) is by Snowden completely safe - it secret services in some situations they can break through and through collaboration with IT companies.
Intelligence are said to be able to decrypt the data, even if the protection supposedly secure HTTPS or SSL encryption. Well implemented strong encryption is not threatened by Snowden.
HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) is already a standard protocol for private communication over the web. Usually it's a 128-bit encryption and a certificate authority (eg VeriSign)
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), working together with his British counterpart GCHQ achieves success in breaking the encryption using supercomputers, court orders, and to some extent, thanks to the cooperation of technology companies, indicate the published documents.
If these reports are true, then the intelligence to be able to overcome most of the protection that is used to protect data and privacy on the Internet: by e-mail via internet banking to communication via smartphones. Directly between the said Protocol is a widely used protocol HTTPS, which is the de facto standard for secure communications eg Internet banking, e-shops, or personal correspondence.
The Guardian, citing published documents stated that these two spy agencies were "secret partnership" with technology companies and Internet service providers, enabling them to insert a "secret vulnerabilities -known as backdoors or Trapdoors (back or folding doors) - in commercial encryption programs. "
Journalists disclose information despite requests Intelligence ! https
According to published reports, U.S. intelligence officials asked The New York Times and ProPublica that the matter did not write. Request on the fear that disclosure of this information causes the foreign targets "switch" to other forms of encryption or communications that would be harder to get and read.
ProPublica, an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to investigative journalism, said it has decided to stop issuing paper because it is a matter of importance to the public. "I believe that this is an important message. Shows that the assumptions million Internet users about the privacy of their electronic communi- cations are mistaken," wrote the editors of the media. Editors, however, agreed that "disclose any specific details" of these operations.
Published reports also indicate that the NSA worked to break the encryption Internet more than ten years. And since he lost the fight technology companies to deliver their decoding "keys." AFP tried to contact representatives of American intelligence, but yet they did not comment on these reports.
Project Bullrun: HTTPS, SSL VoIP and are no longer safe
Project name Bullrun comes from a place famous battle of the American Civil War . "Bullrun The project involves the ability of the NSA to break the encryption used in certain network technologies," the document says that journalists from Snowden received. The document states that the protocols are compromised and HTTPS, SSL or commonly used VoIP (voice over internet).
Operators who have access to information about the project Bullrun were warning that the existence of "at least maintain strict confidentiality." In particular, two facts should be hidden at all costs: the NSA works with companies to changes in hardware so that it is possible to break the encryption; another undisclosed fact should be that the NSA "obtains the cryptographic information for commercial cryptographic systems through its relationships in the industry . "
This does not mean, however, that the NSA and its British sister managed to break any encryption. This was confirmed by Edward Snowden: "Encryption, a well-implemented and strong encryption works." NSAIDs however, we can circumvent various encryption, and at different stages of the encryption process.
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