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UPDATED: UK-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: Full-text: Secret Document Reveals NSA Campaign Against Encryption

05 September 2013

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See the full text: Secret Document Reveals NSA Campaign Against Encryption (pdf)

New York Times commented: "Documents show that the NSA has been waging war against encryption using a battery of methods that include working with industry to weaken encryption standards, making design changes to cryptographic software, and pushing international encryption standards it knows it can break." NYT version with comments (pdf)

See also: How to remain secure against NSA surveillance, (Bruce Schneier, Guardian link) and The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back (link)

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