How Secure Can Silent Circle Get?
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The secure communications provider Silent Circle is pretty upset about the apparent betrayal of the cryptographic community by the National Security Agency, so it’s moving away from encryption standards that the intelligence agency helped develop.
Silent Circle, co-founded by Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) author Phil Zimmermann, provides encrypted mobile and desktop voice and text services for personal and enterprise use. In a blog post on Monday, the company said it would soon adopt new defaults to replace certain widely used standards that came out of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with the cooperation or guidance of NSA representatives.