[Cryptography] Other Backdoors?

2013-10-10 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
I sarcastically proposed the use of GOST as an alternative to NIST crypto. Someone shot back a note saying the elliptic curves might be 'bent'. Might be interesting for EC to take another look at GOST since it might be the case that the GRU and the NSA both found a similar backdoor but one was

Re: [Cryptography] Other Backdoors?

2013-10-10 Thread David Mercer
Thursday, October 10, 2013, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: [Can't link to FIPS180-4 right now as its down] For the lazy among us, including my future self, a shutdown-proof url to the archive.org copy of the NIST FIPS 180-4 pdf: http://tinyurl.com/FIPS180-4 -David Mercer -- David Mercer