Outed by the memos he leaked: > Classified N.S.A. memos appear to confirm that the fatal weakness, discovered by two Microsoft cryptographers in 2007, was eng

Outed by the memos he leaked: > Classified N.S.A. memos appear to confirm that the fatal weakness, discovered by two Microsoft cryptographers in 2007, was engineered by the agency. The N.S.A. wrote the standard and aggressively pushed it on the international group, privately calling the effort “a challenge in finesse.” From https://www.propublica.org/article/the-nsas-secret-campaign-to-crack-undermine-internet-encryption https://www.propublica.org/article/the-nsas-secret-campaign-... Or for some other discussion https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/01/14/hopefully-last-post-ill-ever-write-on/ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/01/14/hopefull...