A Redaction Re-Visited: NSA Targeted “The Two Leading” Encryption Chips

On September 5, 2013,The Guardian, theNew York Timesand ProPublicajointly reported — based on documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden — that the National Security Agency had compromisedsome of the encryption that is most commonly used to secure internet transactions. The NYTexplainedthat NSA “has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and...