<story><title>The Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His NSA Leaks</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/10/snowdens-first-emails-to-poitras/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noir_lord</author><text>&amp;gt; Assume your adversary is capable of one trillion guesses per second&lt;p&gt;Jesus, one trillion passphrase checks a second.&lt;p&gt;Well I know what I&amp;#x27;m changing this afternoon.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; My personal desire is that you paint the target directly on my back. No one, not even my most trusted confidant, is aware of my intentions and it would not be fair for them to fall under suspicion for my actions.&lt;p&gt;Snowden has always had my respect but the more I read the more he has my admiration as a person.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickscoronado</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s entirely fascinating how they&amp;#x27;ve been unable to successfully assault Snowden&amp;#x27;s character.  It&amp;#x27;s like the second go-to move after denying everything, and they still haven&amp;#x27;t been able to paint him a villain.  He&amp;#x27;s just so damn heroic.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsweek.com/most-americans-think-snowden-did-right-thing-poll-says-253163&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newsweek.com&amp;#x2F;most-americans-think-snowden-did-rig...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His NSA Leaks</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/10/snowdens-first-emails-to-poitras/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noir_lord</author><text>&amp;gt; Assume your adversary is capable of one trillion guesses per second&lt;p&gt;Jesus, one trillion passphrase checks a second.&lt;p&gt;Well I know what I&amp;#x27;m changing this afternoon.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; My personal desire is that you paint the target directly on my back. No one, not even my most trusted confidant, is aware of my intentions and it would not be fair for them to fall under suspicion for my actions.&lt;p&gt;Snowden has always had my respect but the more I read the more he has my admiration as a person.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jercos</author><text>Considering john the ripper has a plugin that can churn out 50k c&amp;#x2F;s on a gpg key with a mid-tier GPU without specific optimizations, I&amp;#x27;d guess a dedicated team of NSA researchers could get the cost for off-the-shelf hardware down to 5000 c&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;$ (based on a $100 GPU running 50k c&amp;#x2F;s + 10x speedup from engineering effort and specific optimizations), which makes the cost of the raw GPU hardware for a 1 trillion passphrase GPU cluster a smooth $200 million for a civilian assembling in his basement.&lt;p&gt;Wanna bet the NSA gets volume discounts from nVidia&amp;#x2F;AMD?</text></comment>