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Looking back at the Snowden revelations – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering

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My academic website Mastodon Twitter Top Posts Useful crypto resources Bitcoin tipjar Cryptopals challenges Applied Cryptography Research: A Board Journal of Cryptographic Engineering (not related to this blog) Edward Snowden recently released his memoirs. In some parts of the Internet, this has rekindled an ancient debate: namely, was it all worth it? Did Snowden’s leaks make us better off, or did Snowden just embarass us and set back U.S. security by decades? Most of the arguments are so familiar that they’re boring at this point. But no matter how many times I read them, I still feel that there’s something important missing. It’s no coincidence that this is a cryptography blog, which means that I’m not concerned with the same things as the general public. That is, I’m not terribly interested in debating the value of whistleblower laws (for some of that, see this excellent Twitter thread by Jake Williams). Instead, when it comes to Snowden’s leaks, I think the question we should be a

Edward Snowden recently released his memoirs . In some parts of the Internet, this has rekindled an ancient debate: namely, was it all worth it? Did Snowden’s leaks make us better off, or did Snowden just embarass us and set back U.S. security by decades? Most of the arguments are so familiar that they’re boring at this point. But no matter how many times I read them, I still feel that there’s something important missing. It’s no coincidence that this is a cryptography blog , which means that I’m not concerned with the same things as the general public. That is, I

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