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Part of the NSA's mandate is protecting US interests and communications as well. My personal favourite example of this is the changes they recommended to DES wh
by patrickyeon 15y ago
Part of the NSA's mandate is protecting US interests and communications as well. My personal favourite example of this is the changes they recommended to DES while it was being established that strengthened DES against differential attacks, a class of attacks that was not publicly known of until years later http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#Data_Encryption_Standard_.28DES.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#Data_E...
- lorlandar 15y agoA more secure society wouldn't have secret agencies operating in peacetime. Why? Because their mandates, budgets, policies are also secret and subject to mission creep.
- udoprog 15y agoExcept that this specific document comes with good advice and rationale. There is nothing here that indicates a secret agenda. It's not as if the document is telling you to install a backdoor for them.