On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Michael Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I don't see any evidence of said shift in priorities. NSA supported escrowed encryption in the 90's, and the alleged subversion of standards is most likely similar to escrowed encryption, but at the algorithmic level [1], where an adversary gaining access to key escrow requires computational / cryptanalysis effort that's equivalent to breaking the cryptosystem in question. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte -- 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].
