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The US and a few others routinely sink billions of dollars into weapons systems they'll only ever be able to use once, like strategic nuclear submarines. So th
by tlb 6y ago
The US and a few others routinely sink billions of dollars into weapons systems they'll only ever be able to use once, like strategic nuclear submarines.
So the fact that a backdoor could only be used briefly until it was discovered, doesn't mean that some agency wouldn't invest a lot of effort into developing it, just in case.
- tptacek 6y agoHave you read Koblitz and Menezes on this? Section 3.1 goes into more technical details, which are worth reading and easy to follow. https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1018.pdf https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1018.pdf
- deathgrips 6y agoThe US sinks billions into strategic weapons so that it doesn't have to use them.