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Just How Advanced Is the NSA’s Decryption Tech?

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There have been no end of reports about the NSA’s mind-blowing decrytion techniques. But just how much of it is super-smart computer science, and how much is brute force?

In this video, Richard Mortier from the University of Nottingham, UK, describes the mathematics—and other, less sophisticated techniques—that the NSA is using to snoop on us all. [YouTube]

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