Re: PGP/SSL/TLS really as secure as one thinks?

[David Walker <davidianwalker () gmail com>]

On 08/06/2013, Jeroen Massar <jeroen () massar ch> wrote:
> On 2013-06-07 06:50, Dan White wrote:
> [..]
>
> A nice 'it is Friday' kind of thought....

Caring about secrecy (or obscurity) of algorithms is a fools errand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle

Taking Shannon's maxim "the enemy knows the system" to it's ultimate
conclusion, the NSA put a premium on any and all looking at their
algorithms. They'd prefer us to have a crack or they're not doing
their job.

As you say, they "have the top crypto people in the world" and this is
a cherished paradigm of doing business in crypto land.
Any useful system will survive that process.