Oh, What A Tangled Web The NSA Weaves
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 18:20
in Mathematics & Economics
There’s a popular YouTube video featuring mathematician Edward Frenkel where he describes how the NSA hacked our emails. It is a backdoor into the National Institute of Standards and Technology public key encryption standards. I’ll borrow an analogy for a simplified description of how public key encryption works from Simon Singh. Imagine a sturdy metal box that can be locked shut with a padlock. read more