[svlug] EU STOS, State of the Art in COMINT, NSA crypto backdoors

[Jeffrey Siegal]

Rich Bodo wrote:
> The WFR field in browsers, Notes, etc. was marketed by vendors as a key-size
> reduction, not as a work-factor reduction specifically for the NSA.

As I said, though, this means that customers got *more* than what they
were sold.  They were sold 40-bit keys, and what they actually got were
40-bit keys when attacked by the NSA (and probably friends), but 64- or
128-bit keys when attacked by anyone else.  Where is the complaint here?