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That was more South Korea’s own bad crypto policy’s fault than Microsoft’s fault, though.
by hsivonen 7y ago
That was more South Korea’s own bad crypto policy’s fault than Microsoft’s fault, though.
- pcr910303 7y ago> That was more South Korea’s own bad crypto policy’s fault South Korean here, I wouldn’t say it was the government’s fault to enforce better security/crypto tech on the web when banking, right? To be strict, everything really started because of the US’s IMO useless export restrictions. Then it became a legacy that couldn’t be third of for ~20 yrs. I don’t think the policy was great, but it was reasonable at the time.
- pitaj 7y agoI think the point is that it wasn't better security. And nowadays it likely has no improvement or actually decreases security.
- microcolonel 7y agoIt was because the U.S. government placed export restrictions on Rijndael. I mean, the alternative might have been for them to just use Rijndael anyway, and that would probably have been better in the long run, but heh. Now that that stuff is out of the way, I honestly can't see why they don't (or didn't until recently?) allow Rijndael or ChaCha20.
- modo_mario 7y agoWait what? How could they even put export restrictions on it?