[captainmuon]

It would be really interesting if that kind of technical detail leaked. With all of these leaks, I've never heard of a technical / mathematical document discussing the actual encryption algorithms leaking.

Makes me wonder if either

- This whole leak is a "fake" or at least no big deal for the TLAs (because there is not much surprizing inside)

and / or:

- Most encryption is broken in a fundamental way. I would never be able find out, because the four or five influential security experts I know and trust, and who tell me it is safe, are bought by the TLAs. Who knows, maybe all PGP does effectively is to mark my mails as really really interesting. "They" can trivially decrypt them, and then they employ thousands of analysts who just do parallel construction on everything they find out (so they don't leak their exploit).

[gjm11]

A boring but more likely explanation is that the juicier the information, the more heavily protected it is. Fewer people know, writing it down is more strongly discouraged, more paranoid procedures are used to prevent leaks, etc.