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Professor of Crypto Posts Blog About NSA Compromising SSL

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Great link tweeted by Steve Gibson. Worth reading to understand why it's bad for the Internet, for American technology companies, bad for our economy. and bad for our country that the NSA has purposely tried to compromise SSL encryption.

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com ... n-nsa.html

In a related story, the crypto professor at John Hopkins University who posted this on his blog, was asked to remove his blog from the university's servers:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09 ... newsletter
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sigh. :(
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Johns Hopkins dean apologizes for ordering NSA-related blog removed

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/s ... s-for-blog
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