Tor, TrueCrypt, Tails topped the NSA’s ‘most wanted’ list in 2012

Der Spiegel has published a slide deck showing the U.S. National Security Agency’s cryptographic “most wanted” list of 2012 tools. The tools were ranked by their impact, from trivial to catastrophic, and their use risk. Tor, Tails and TrueCrypt were top of the NSA’s list of major or catastrophic threats, Der Spiegel says. The NSA’s 2013 budget of over US$10 billion was allocated to “Cryptanalysis and Exploitation Services” Among the tools the NSA feared it might need to crack was encrypted telephony tool Redphone.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2863736/tor-truecrypt-tails-topped-the-nsas-most-wanted-list-in-2012.html