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WannaCrypt outbreak contained as hunt for masterminds kicks in

JimmyPage Silver badge
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GCHQ/NSA and decryption keys ...

Unless the people behind this hack were better than the average criminal (and I can't see any evidence of that so far) then it's more than likely they botched generating the encryption keys. Certainly enough that the massive computing power (plus special algorithms) packed by the boffins at GCHQ/NSA should be able to provide a good stab at delivering the decryption keys.

Which (in this commentards humble opinion) is *exactly* the sort of thing they should be doing. Certainly before hoovering up all our web searches.

I know they are understandably cagey about their capabilities, but is it too much to hope that in between tweets and election gaffes, the US and UK have in place a mechanism to release decryption keys without it being obvious ? Bearing in mind there's still a mystery over how the Crysis keys were leaked online.

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