Chapter 59 The United States suffered heavy losses
West Coast, Evergreen State.
As the Information Security Administration of China began to fully close the Internet, the CIA in the United States gradually realized that its informants on that land seemed to be losing contact.
But they have no way of being completely sure.
Because many times their key informants placed in other countries do not keep in touch with them all the time and every day.
In addition to issuing tasks, they generally do not take the initiative to contact key informants.
Because this will increase the risk of key informants being exposed.
But their monitoring and understanding of key informants will not stop.
No one knows what these informants will do better than they do, even, to some extent, they know better than the informants themselves.
Just like there is a university professor who is stationed in J City. In addition to providing information, he will make a video call to his lover every day.
But in recent days, this action has disappeared. Although his information supply has not stopped, he has not contacted this lover again.
This is a very small thing, and maybe it doesn't matter in the eyes of normal people. After all, sometimes it's normal to forget to call when you are busy. It may also be that people are bored together and don't need a video.
But in the eyes of the CIA Intelligence Service, this was enough to cause alarm.
Amidst this situation, an emergency meeting was being held in the CIA Silver Shield Building.
"Everyone, I think there may be something wrong with the informants we planted in China, or in other words, they are in trouble."
David Peter, the director of the Intelligence Analysis Division who is only fifty-six years old, has some gray hair, wears a pair of glasses, and holds a pipe in his mouth, knocking on the table and said in a deep voice.
"Why do you say that? Isn't our intelligence system still functioning normally? News is passed back from that country every day."
The director of the Intelligence Management Division frowned and asked.
"Yes, the intelligence system is indeed functioning normally, and news is passed back from that country every day, but the recent activities of some of our key informants have been very abnormal."
"Look at this."
David Peter knocked on the table, and a projection appeared in the conference room.
"Judging from the information and data we have collected, the recent activities of our key informants are somewhat abnormal."
"This is one of our informants in Baicheng. He used to video call his lover every day, but this behavior has stopped in recent days."
"This is an informant from Mingyue City. He is one of the leaders of the female boxing organization we have trained. He forwards and sends some news messages on a software called 'Bibo' in that country every day. Similarly, in the past few days, his The account has stopped updating.”
"There are also informants from Saibei"
"There are many such things. If it is just one or two cases, it may still be a coincidence, but now, I seriously suspect that there is something wrong with our intelligence system."
David Peter said in a deep voice. He is very sensitive to information and can analyze a lot of useful information from tiny details.
Some clues that may seem trivial to ordinary eyes are, in his eyes, the path leading to the final answer.
"But the information from these informants has not been interrupted these days, and the information was delivered back just three hours ago."
The director of the Intelligence Management Division frowned and flipped through the computer in his hand.
"This is the most suspicious thing." David Peter said solemnly: "I suspect that they have all been exposed or even been caught. The person who is contacting us now and providing us with information may not be him, but People in that country, our 'God Encryption' system may have been completely cracked by them."
Hearing this, the entire conference room was in an uproar.
"Impossible! This is impossible!"
"God Encryption is an encryption method designed in conjunction with the top mathematics professors of the Ivy League. It applies the world's most cutting-edge logic and function knowledge. As for that backward country, do they have real mathematicians?"
"Dave, you underestimate our opponent too much. The country on the other side of the river has developed rapidly and is now the second largest economy in the world."
"So what, if our country also has a population of more than one billion, it will develop better."
"Actually, I'm more curious about how they quickly located our informant. It's normal for our encryption algorithm to be cracked. If the other party relies on mathematicians to decrypt, it can indeed be done, but the location is accurate and fast. , this is almost impossible.”
"The encrypted messages we send out every day are mixed with a lot of useless information, and it will take a long time to decipher this information manually."
"Unless they have accurately found every mathematical law behind the encryption algorithm and established a mathematical model, it will never be possible to keep up with us relying on manpower alone."
"So these are just coincidences?"
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In the conference room, CIA Director John Brennan, who had been silent, knocked on the table, interrupted everyone's conversation, and looked at the specially invited mathematician Will Wordsworth.
Will Wordsworth is a lifelong honorary professor at Harvard University and a Fields Medal winner. He has extremely high attainments in mathematics and cryptography. This God Encryption Project is led by him.
"Professor Will, what are the chances that our encryption algorithm will be fully cracked?"
Will Wordsworth pondered for a moment and said: "There is a perfect encryption algorithm in mathematics, but in reality we cannot write it."
"But according to my estimation, even if they can fully unlock God's encryption, it will take at least two or three years."
"In just a few months, the other party has broken our God's encryption. This is indeed beyond my previous expectations. In my opinion, this possibility is less than one in ten thousand."
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“You must know that it took us more than five months to conceive and design this encryption system.”
"If we were not concerned about the performance of the decryption equipment in the hands of intelligence personnel, we could even insert a real encrypted message into tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of fake messages."
"In this way, this encryption system is the real 'God's encryption', which cannot be decrypted even if God comes."
John Brennan rubbed his temples with a headache: "It seems that we have to be prepared to reduce losses. Let the key informants who can come back come back with the information first."
They planted informants on the opposite side's activities, and many of them used this encrypted system to communicate and transmit intelligence in the past few months.
If the other party really masters the means to decipher the encrypted information, then the loss this time will be really too great.
Even the informants who have been deployed and developed over the past ten years may be uprooted.
At that time, their information control over that country will be completely blank and reduced to the lowest level in history.
If they don't even know what the other party wants to do, how can they restrict the other party's development?
This is an unrealistic question.
If this happens, he will be a sinner in the United States.
(End of chapter)