Who bought off Zimmermann?

[grarpamp@gmail.com (grarpamp)]

> On 8/30/13, Jon Callas <jon@callas.org> wrote:
> What we're learning from Snowden is that they're doing traffic analysis --
> analyzing movements, social graphs, and so on and so forth. The irony here
> is that this tells us that the crypto works.

Are we sure? This seems to tell us they are doing traffic analysis and so forth.
It doesn't seem to say much about cryptanalytic capabilities. For all we know
they could have all the crypto in the bag but need analysis to identify
talkers due to people being exceedingly careful about the message content.

"Blue hen rides over the book on the left side when the sun is low.
Do you copy?"

Now if someone leaked all the secret crypto capabilities docs out
in public, or someone else got in trouble solely from what they
properly encrypted, then we'd know whether or not the crypto works.