{"id":8457,"date":"2015-05-25T06:06:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T11:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8457"},"modified":"2015-05-25T06:06:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T11:06:13","slug":"from-the-very-creation-of-the-internet-u-s-spy-agencies-fought-to-block-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8457","title":{"rendered":"From the Very Creation of the Internet, U.S. Spy Agencies Fought to Block Encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/05\/from-the-very-creation-of-the-internet-u-s-spy-agencies-fought-to-block-encryption.html\" target=\"_blank\">From the Very Creation of the Internet, U.S. Spy Agencies Fought to Block Encryption<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>American spy agencies have intentionally weakened digital security\u00a0<a title=\"for many decades\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/01\/american-british-spy-agencies-intentionally-weakened-security-many-decades.html\">for many decades<\/a>. This\u00a0<a title=\"breaks the functionality of our computers and of the Internet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/01\/open-letter-top-u-s-computer-security-experts-slams-nsa-spying-destroying-security.html\">breaks the functionality of our computers and of the Internet<\/a>. It reduces functionality and reduces security by \u2013 for example \u2013\u00a0<a title=\"creating backdoors that malicious hackers can get through\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/01\/open-letter-top-u-s-computer-security-experts-slams-nsa-spying-destroying-security.html\">creating backdoors that malicious hackers can get through<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The spy agencies have treated patriotic Americans who want to use encryption to protect their privacy as\u00a0<a title=\"extremists \u2026 or even terrorists\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/07\/nsa-targets-extremists-people-try-avoid-intrusive-spying-using-privacy-tools.html\">extremists \u2026 or even terrorists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Gizmodo\u2019s Matt Novak\u00a0<a title=\"points out\" href=\"http:\/\/paleofuture.gizmodo.com\/the-nsa-hated-civilian-encrypted-data-way-back-in-the-1-895351153\" target=\"_blank\">points out<\/a>, this attack started at the very birth of the internet:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"first-text\" data-textannotation-id=\"c67376e528976cbe318144a31c054db0\">In the 1970s, civilian researchers at places like IBM, Stanford and MIT were developing encryption to ensure that digital data sent between businesses, academics and private citizens couldn\u2019t be intercepted and understood by a third party. This concerned folks in<strong>the U.S. intelligence community<\/strong>\u00a0who\u00a0<strong>didn\u2019t want to get locked out of potentially eavesdropping on anyone<\/strong>, regardless of their preferred communications method. Despite their most valiant efforts, agencies like the NSA ultimately lost out to commercial interests. But it wasn\u2019t for lack of trying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-text\" data-textannotation-id=\"c67376e528976cbe318144a31c054db0\">***<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"a4d5ad1b86944adf40b798ef3ed818be\">When the NSA got wind of the research developments at IBM, Stanford and MIT in the 1970s they\u00a0<strong>scrambled to block publication of their early studies<\/strong>. When that didn\u2019t work, the NSA sought to work with the civilian research community to develop the encryption. As Stowsky writes, \u201cthe agency struck a deal with IBM to develop a data encryption standard (DES) for commercial applications in return for full pre-publication review and right to\u00a0<strong>regulate the length, and therefore the strength of the crypto algorithm<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Very Creation of the Internet, U.S. Spy Agencies Fought to Block Encryption American spy agencies have intentionally weakened digital security\u00a0for many decades. This\u00a0breaks the functionality of our computers and of the Internet. It reduces functionality and reduces security by \u2013 for example \u2013\u00a0creating backdoors that malicious hackers can get through. 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