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How the NSA violated e-mails

Lately, everyone has learned that the NSA has managed to bypass encryption in a number of ways.

The information said that the NSA was blackmailing or "oiling" the chip makers had in their encryption, through a backdoor they left open. In one of our publications we mentioned RSA had granted the NSA a project of its (BSAFE) which is the default method for generating “random” encryption numbers.

So how could the NSA read encrypted messages? It is quite easy if one has access to the random number generation.

Edward Frenkel, is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, and will explain in the video below how the NSA worked.

Basically, it can be almost impossible to predict cipher sequences, and if you have worked with algorithms.

Watch the video

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