NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers said it is vital for Divine Sam to spy on criminals and that this should be possible even if citizens use strong encryption.
Rogers reckons Americans should secure their communications against all eavesdroppers—except, of course, those who work for the police, the FBI, and the NSA (to counter terrorism). Experts, on the other hand, warn that any backdoors that allow this to happen can also be exploited by criminals.
Ο Rogers μίλησε σε ένα συνέδριο για την ασφάλεια στον κυβερνοχώρο που διοργανώθηκε από το New America Foundation think tank τη Δευτέρα σύμφωνα με το TheRegister. Παρών ήταν και ο Bruce Schneier, ο οποίος έχει γράψει βιβλίο για την κρυπτογραφία και υποστήριζε ότι η εμμονή στα backdoors της κρυπτογράφησης - όπως τα skeleton keys που μπορούν να αποκρυπτογραφήσουν οποιοδήποτε μήνυμα - θα αποδυναμώσει την ασφάλεια των Αμερικανών.
The leader security of Yahoo! Alex Stamos also wondered if his company is forced to install government-mandated backdoors, why wouldn't they have the right to submit similar requests the Russians and the Chinese.
"I think we'd be lying [saying that adding a backdoor] isn't technically possible. Now, that would have to be done within a framework. I'm the first to admit that," Rogers said.
Rogers also spoke about backdoor, saying he was malicious, and insisted that there should be a legal framework for everyone except the FBI or the NSA to make the interception of communications easier.
But the question about the revelation of the last week also fell on the tableteamς από τον Snowden που αναφέρει η NSA και GCHQ παραβίασαν το μεγαλύτερο κατασκευαστή καρτών SIM για να υποκλέψουν τα κλειδιά κρυπτογράφησης, καθώς και για την έκθεση της Kaspersky Lab για το κακόβουλο λογισμικό της NSA που είναι κρυμμένο στο firmware των σκληρών δίσκων.
"It's clear that I'm not going to go into details. But I would like to say that, we are legal," he said, adding that he does not believe that the security of the Internet will be compromised by these actions.
Is the NSA legal? Doubtful. The 215 Rule of the Patriotic Law, which supports espionage, will be renewed within 2015 after it expires at 31 May. Rogers said it is up to legislators to renew or change the law.
The answer to the question of the title is the characteristic Perfect Forward Secrecy: the software in most communications uses PFS to keep the data encrypted even if the encryption keys are in the hands of agents or criminals. So the Federals need other means to unlock the encrypted data.
