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Obama Agrees with Snowden on a Need for Strong Cyber Defense

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday January 14 2015, @04:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the firewall-of-tubes dept.

MorbidBBQ writes:

Obama's statement on Cyber Defense; days after Edward Snowden says we should focus on Cyber Defense instead of Offense.

NPR- Obama: If we're going to be connected, then we need to be protected

President Obama said Monday he wants the federal government to do more to prevent cyber attacks. He outlined a series of proposals designed to safeguard personal data — steps he'll talk more about in next week's State of the Union address.

"Dozens of software companies have already signed a voluntary pledge not to misuse students' data. But some in the industry worry that a new federal law would go too far."

Snowden's interview Transcript
Snowden: "DES was actually stronger than we thought it was at the time because the NSA had secretly manipulated the standard to make it stronger back in the day, which was weird, but that shows the difference in thinking between the ’80s and the ’90s."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday January 14 2015, @09:49PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday January 14 2015, @09:49PM (#134899) Homepage
    I know a fair few crypto guys, including those who entered AES, and were actively involved in the tear-your-competitors'-entries-to-pieces stage, and none of them have any worries that AES has at least a decade of life in it without any need to worry. Poorly-designed protocols that use AES - they can come, snap, and go, but that's not AES's fault.

    It's defintely better than any roll-your-own primitive for 99.999999% of humans, that is beyond question.
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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday January 15 2015, @08:09AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday January 15 2015, @08:09AM (#135030) Journal

    I'm thinking in comparison to other encryption standards.