I am not wedded to the xor decision, and I would not have dreamed it up.
But looking at NSA's backdoor as an engineering problem, that xoring
looks like a really hard thing for them to break. The secret silicon
would have to be field upgradable to match specific kernel versions.
There have
Correction: it is Ted Ts'o. Not T'so as I had written.
Sorry,
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I am not wedded to the xor decision, and I would not have dreamed it up.
But looking at NSA's backdoor as an engineering problem, that xoring
looks like a really hard thing for them to break. The secret silicon
would have to be field upgradable to
Eric Chadbourne wrote:
| Love it!
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| Eric Chadbourne
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| On 09/07/2014 09:41 PM, John Abreau wrote:
| http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3296#comic
It sort goes along with http://xkcd.com/538/,
though the details are all rather different.
The name for the general concept seems to be
social
j...@trillian.mit.edu wrote:
It sort goes along with http://xkcd.com/538/,
though the details are all rather different.
The name for the general concept seems to be
social engineering these days.
Actually, no, the xkcd comic depicts rubber-hose cryptanalysis:
