Here in the hacker community there’s nothing we love more than a clueless politician making a fool of themselves sounding off about a technology they know nothing about. A few days ago we wer…
  • gian English
    9•9 months ago

    The first rule of encryption is that the password need to be secret, not the algorithm. (not mine, but I cannot readily find the source, sorry :-( )

    A truly good encryption algorithm is safe even if I give you the source code for it but not the password I used to encrypt the data.

    • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
      -2•9 months ago

      That’s assuming the algorithm is sound. If the algorithm has a flaw then it’s only a matter of time until you can easily crack anything using it.

    • @modeler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4•9 months ago

      Exactly. And all the core internet encryption and signing algorithms are fully open source. Eg RSA, AES, DIffie Helman. And these are the algorithms the US (and most other western) governments require when sending data to or from or within there servers.