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Because of the NSA'S ability to scoop up the most brilliant cryptographers, they're one of the few powerhouses that have the ability to put together a team effo
by deftnerd 11y ago
Because of the NSA'S ability to scoop up the most brilliant cryptographers, they're one of the few powerhouses that have the ability to put together a team effort to accomplish this.
Unfortunately, they've shown in the past a clear desire to sabotage implementations to include weaknesses that only they or perhaps other large state actors can take advantage of.
Any implementation of a quantum-resistant cryptography will face a large uphill battle in terms of trust.
- kzrdude 11y agoSee http://pqcrypto.org/ http://pqcrypto.org/ for non-NSA work on post quantum crypto.
- signaler 11y agoA lot of poaching can be seen at crypto conferences, where attackers like to show off their GPU clusters and arrays of server racks which should have hard-drives and ethernet, but are now packed with custom PS3s for the express purpose of breaking weak keys
- benwilber0 11y ago> clear desire to sabotage implementations to include weaknesses I understand the sentiment here, but even the NSA has far more to lose from insecure encryption algorithms than they have to gain by having backdoor access to "secure" encryption algorithms.
- kentrado 11y agoI don't think they are about that given what they've done.