At 9:21 AM +1100 11/16/10, Ian G wrote: >It used to be said that the NSA employed more mathematicians than the rest of >the world put together. This was sort of a comment on their dominance in >cryptography. Is this factoid still the case? > >And, could it be said that the NSA employs more IT Sec people than anyone else? > >I'm trying to come up with some sort of view as to how leading or powerful the >NSA's influence is on the infosec world. For example, they are currently >pushing out the humble 1024 bit RSA key (via their open partner NIST).
NSA !!= NIST The NSA has a stated goal to get more people to use Suite B, which does not include RSA of any key size. NIST is pushing for larger RSA key sizes, while making Suite B an "option". > In this case, the documentation clearly states it is for USA government > agencies only, but it seems open players like Mozilla with completely > different security agendas are tripping over themselves to follow NSA's > guidance. I don't see Suite B in Mozilla products yet. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
