On 09/10/2013 10:48 AM, Jason White wrote:
> Russell Coker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Next if the NSA wanted to put some hostile code in the kernel then surely
>> they
>> would use a random gmail account to submit patches and not do anything bad
>> under their own name.
>>
> Agreed. Further, if any government wanted to subvert cryptography they could
> do it by trying to sneak code into OpenSSL, NSS or GNUTLS - and the
> vulnerability would have to be subtle enough to escape notice by the
> maintainers.
>> The so-called "revelations" aren't anything particularly exciting anyway.
>> They merely confirm that some parts of the NSA recently started doing things
>> that lots of people expected them to have been doing since the 90's.
> Yes, exactly. What we don't know is whether any well-known cryptographic
> algorithms have been broken or weakened. As I recall however, the U.S.
> government is supposed to be moving toward elliptic curve cryptography, and
> the NSA has an interest in *protecting* the confidentiality of government
> information.
>
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