Silicon Valley Nerds Seek Revenge on NSA Spies

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has determined that known computing power won’t be able to break 2048-bit encryption until at least 2030.

Agencies like the NSA use stronger encryption, said Bruce Schneier, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

Schneier recommends companies encrypt everything even though the NSA can often defeat it by, among other tactics, installing malicious software on computers to steal the security keys that unlock encryption codes.

“The NSA has turned the Internet into a giant surveillance platform,” Schneier, a computer security and privacy specialist, said in a phone interview.

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-15/silicon-valley-nerds-seek-revenge-on-nsa-spies-with-super-coding.html