Traduction de «Encrypted text » (Anglais → Français) :

2. Points specifically to US NSA intelligence programmes allowing for the mass surveillance of EU citizens through direct access to the central servers of leading US internet companies (PRISM programme), the analysis of content and metadata (Xkeyscore programme), the circumvention of online encryption (BULLRUN), access to computer and telephone networks, and access to location data, as well as to systems of the UK intelligence agency GCHQ such as the upstream surveillance activity (Tempora programme), the decryption programme (Edgehill), the targeted ‘man-in-the-middle attacks’ on information systems (Quantumtheory and Foxacid programmes ...[+++]) and the collection and retention of 200 million text messages per day (Dishfire programme);

See Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, Resolutions no. 06-2007, “Lawful Access to Encrypted Electronic Media,” Resolutions Adopted at the 102 Annual Conference (328 kB, 58 pages), Calgary, August 2007, p. 26. [ Return to text ]

However, a large number of possible keys does not necessarily imply secure encryption if the method results in an encrypted text which gives clues to its decryption (e.g. the frequency of particular letters).

The text is then encrypted using that key.

The use of computers made it possible to generate coded texts, using powerful encryption algorithms, which offer practically no starting-points for codebreakers.

The state’s interest in having access to encryption processes and thus to the plain texts does not only stand in opposition to the right to privacy, but also to entrenched economic interests.