Slashdot: John Gilmore Analyzes NSA Obstruction of Crypto In IPSEC

[William Muriithi]

> >
> > "In a recent article posted on the cryptography mailing list, long
> > time civil libertarian and free software entrepreneur John Gilmore has
> > analyzed possible NSA obstruction of cryptography in IPSEC. He
> > suggests that packet processing in the Linux kernel had been
> > obstructed by one kernel developer. Gilmore suggests that the NSA has
> > been plotting against strong cryptography on mobile phones."

They possibly have an upper hand with phones. They just need to make sure
Telecom toe the line.

Think they may loose a bit of control with 4G. Being IP based straight to
the end equipment,  it may get harder especially if peer to peer ever work.

But from reading around,  it looks like their biggest win was making sure
ipsec was not part ipv6. Can't help but brighten up thinking if that had
happened. Imagine every connection from IPv6 being encrypted by default,
isn't that kind of cute?

Finally have a bit of technical stuff on what Bullrun is all about. Gosh,
the fluff on general media was not very helpful

William
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