Snowden: Geheimdienste NSA und GCHQ knacken Internet-Verschlüsselung - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Snowden: Geheimdienste NSA und GCHQ knacken Internet-Verschlüsselung - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Snowden new revelations: the race to secure encryption

It is a new dimension of spying: documents to prove that the intelligence community NSA and GCHQ even crack encrypted communications on the Internet. Experts still further advised to cryptography in order to make the spies working so hard and expensive as possible.

Pay on the Web, sending private messages, logging in to Facebook - all of which works by using encryption. Without this technology, the Internet as we know it, no longer functional. More serious are the current revelations, according to which not even encrypted Internet connections are secure before the NSA.