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Well, I would think so as well, but we have at least some anecdata (N=1) in the other direction [0]: > In doing this I discovered that the NSA public key had a
by filleokus 7y ago
Well, I would think so as well, but we have at least some anecdata (N=1) in the other direction [0]:
> In doing this I discovered that the NSA public key had an organizational name of "MiniTruth", and a common name of "Big Brother". Specifically what I saw in my debugger late one night, which was spooky for a short moment was:
O=MiniTruth CN=Big Brother
[0]: http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html
- pc86 7y agoThis could just as easily be a programmer stretching the metaphor as far as possible, which is not exactly an uncommon practice.
- sterlind 7y agoThat was specifically a key escrow-style system, so you're right there. Lotus Notes wanted to provide strong encryption abroad, in the bad old days of ITAR. they used a hybrid of an exportable-sized key (~50 bit encryption) and a stronger, backdoored key (MiniTruth.) They were very public about it, though. It sucked they had to water down their encryption, but that was the reality until PGP challenged ITAR head-on.