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===Suspected decryption by NSA=== On December 28, 2014 ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' published classified information<ref name=Spiegel2014>{{cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-s-war-on-internet-security-a-1010361.html|title=Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security|date=December 28, 2014|work=[[Spiegel Online]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150124202809/http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-s-war-on-internet-security-a-1010361.html|archive-date=January 24, 2015}}</ref> leaked by whistleblower [[Edward Snowden]] which suggests that the [[National Security Agency]] may be able to decrypt some SSH traffic. The technical details associated with such a process were not disclosed. A 2017 analysis of the [[CIA]] hacking tools ''BothanSpy'' and ''Gyrfalcon'' suggested that the SSH protocol was not compromised.<ref>{{cite web|first=Tatu|last=Ylonen|url=https://www.ssh.com/ssh/cia-bothanspy-gyrfalcon|title=BothanSpy & Gyrfalcon - Analysis of CIA hacking tools for SSH|website=ssh.com|date=3 August 2017|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref>
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