Especially for people who want to communicate in peace without anyone nosing around. Secondly, the system's speed means that the bugged conversations and e-mails can be processed and sorted much faster than ever before. Peter Landrock is undoubtedly one of the world's leading cryptologists. From 1992 to 1995, Peter Landrock was president of the International Association of Cryptologic Research. Since 1996, he has been a member of Microsoft's Technical Advisory Board and affiliated with Cambridge University as senior researcher.
Exhaustive search is a code-breaking technique.
It is based on instructing a computer to try every single code combination until it finds the right code, after which the user can read the text. To perform the fastest possible exhaustive search on a encrypted text, a computer system needs an incredibly large storage capacity. To decipher a coded letter, an ordinary computer system would need from now to eternity and then some. The NSA's latest invention is tailor-made to smash the code systems used around the world as protection against spies. Only a few months ago, an Israeli researcher showed how an ordinary household computer with a large hard disk can be used to break encrypted mobile telephones using exhaustive search.