[guardian-dev] Google joins the server-side crypto party

Guy Tavor guy at scoompa.com
Mon Aug 26 05:41:20 EDT 2013


Back in 2010, the Chinese have gained access to Google's data-center
servers<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/google-hack-attack/>using
a trojan that was injected using human engineering. Such a trojan
would have access to disk files, but not to key management servers.

Guy

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On 26 August 2013 11:39, Abel Luck <abel at guardianproject.info> wrote:

> This is kind of ridiculous. Who is stymied by this application of
> crypto? Which adversary?
>
> Certainly not the NSA, they can FISA their way to the keys.
>
> So, it must be an adversary that (1) has access to Google's servers but
> (2) can't access the key management servers.
>
> Who meets both those conditions? Anyone?
>
> ~abel
>
> Lee Azzarello:
> > And you don't even need a key to get in!
> >
> >
> http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.in/2013/08/google-cloud-storage-now-provides.html?m=1
> >
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