(9.9.2013) Matthew Green

Let me tell you the story of my tiny brush with the biggest crypto story of the year.

A few weeks ago I received a call from a reporter at ProPublica, asking me background questions about encryption. Right off the bat I knew this was going to be an odd conversation, since this gentleman seemed convinced that the NSA had vast capabilities to defeat encryption. And not in a ‚hey, d‘ya think the NSA has vast capabilities to defeat encryption?‘ kind of way. No, he‘d already established the defeating. We were just haggling over the details.