-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/09/13 16:01, Richard Brooks wrote: > Interestingly, with the DES standard there were some changes > introduced by NSA that were thought at the time to be backdoors, > since they were never justified. > > Many years later, the community realized that these changes made > some obscure attacks less likely.
Yes, that anecdote often accompanied the argument that NSA wouldn't risk peddling weak crypto. Clearly the balance of priorities within the agency has shifted since DES. It's worth asking whether that shift predated (a) the AES competition, (b) Suite B. Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSKgA/AAoJEBEET9GfxSfMMccH/iFmJ4bqzrOE+fT0sXJiXJuY trew0gi1wlTqwZaCRysJj/oPRprbHaaUSvMXx+KUpBg9kZRt4IvzA6f24CHFL+y+ pHznE3OCZxM8COmnJOO6ij546oiZYfhY8nHyObLddxte6rzsh+phyrK6yZ3qB4Eh XZfk+nEuiEj0s9QP9u8wrlgJev+qEv6yud/eB+meny7CpDwGQoLh37agjKjjEaYX 7KtArFoNVDoAnp0MBoscMDwv7JBcY6KxB996O7kVxSevY0B0Yes4r+fzwaaNVCZS CIlD8uwePnDuDU3eOM73Fy7UGfFMEMEyOqYGyCBR+tDRriSZwPeu6+koicyrQgg= =Q0MY -----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 [email protected].
