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> NIST never saw it coming. How so? The NSA is a spy agency, they are the one institution that you clearly should NOT ask. BTW I love the USA Committee on Sci
by atmosx 11y ago
> NIST never saw it coming.
How so? The NSA is a spy agency, they are the one institution that you clearly should NOT ask.
BTW I love the USA Committee on Science, Space and Technology[1], full of geniuses.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPgZfhnCAdI&spfreload=10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPgZfhnCAdI&spfreload=10
- nickysielicki 11y agoIt's hard to remember what the world was like in 2006, but no one thought the NSA had gone rogue back then.
- maxerickson 11y agoExcept Congress? http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/01/nsa.spying/ http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/01/nsa.spying/ Or does criticizing the executive branch by calling their phone monitoring program illegal not reach the bar set by gone rogue?
- nickysielicki 11y agoWell to that point, NSA contracted out both with NSA and with RSA. At least they didn't give NSA their complete trust. The nasty part is that NSA went behind the backs of everyone and bribed RSA for their own nefarious purposes. I don't think anyone saw that coming.
- acdha 11y agoThat's certainly true now but it hasn't always been such a given because the NSA has a defensive mission, even if they've grossly neglected it, and in the past acted to make crypto standards safer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard#NSA.27s_involvement_in_the_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard#NSA.2...
- nyolfen 11y ago> How so? The NSA is a spy agency, they are the one institution that you clearly should NOT ask. also the largest employer of cryptographers in the world, and is routinely sought for input by NIST, usually to no ill consequence