-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/13 21:10, Richard Brooks wrote: > >> There is a massive difference between cryptanalysis and >> decade-long, well-funded, and top-secret program to subtly weaken >> international cryptographic protocols and sabotage industry >> implementations. > > > Their job is to collect information for the military. That their > work is top-secret should be obvious. That they try to weaken the > crypto not used by the military and US gov. should also be taken as > a given.
They have two jobs: to monitor foreign communication, and to secure domestic communication against foreign monitoring. http://www.nsa.gov/about/mission/ The argument for trusting NSA/NIST crypto standards has historically been that weak crypto would make the first job easier but the second job harder. We now have to re-examine that argument and ask whether the NSA has been gambling with the security of US commercial, government and military data (up to top secret level - the highest level that relies on NSA/NIST-published standards) in order to further its surveillance mission. Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSKemfAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMEOIH/0UEKnJkh+nL2gC2hNRp+N8S hrQeBqLL5oBy2zBbgunXVTlTBA/3YFAmbqdXwnTlGeO9Oypns0cxap3P8bzBKxVr V0jAWpe8edzZ47RyaKEI25op7K8pJnRHKPBgVIoUk8x0j6QkqJ+yV/C59in3u2e1 DPSJvddH408yo57qge90zh55OLM/FQKFnRM3U2fUnOAQrWkYkRqAsDDfh1XPYwaY G0Lyuv/NRuJDoUgqIl8IXuB4ZBNxth72u0iSvoSD1q7npVU/vzkLttEwtb/4fSxc J/wzGayX+9+zti3VrqGuW9HA7ya6ZYln7TN7ZYXU4CHLz4RuOlkUD9ac5xJzUl4= =cPKX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
