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> The NSA Seriously? As soon as the NSA certifies a piece of code it'll be dropped like a hot potato by everyone outside of the US, and probably by a large per
by esperent 4y ago
> The NSA
Seriously? As soon as the NSA certifies a piece of code it'll be dropped like a hot potato by everyone outside of the US, and probably by a large percentage of the people inside it.
If such a body exists, which seems like a reasonable idea, it has to be nongovernmental and not controlled by large corporations either.
- kortilla 4y agoThis doesn’t make sense. The NSA has certified lots of crypto protocols that we use.
- esperent 4y agoThose also presumably have been checked, verified, and certified by many other governments, institutions, and independent mathematicians. I'm not against the NSA, FSB, 3PLA, GCHQ or any other letter based agency certifying things. I'm saying they can't become the main official certifying body for FOSS because it simply won't be accepted by the FOSS community or by other world governments.
- mkj 4y agoThese days it seems those protocols are used in spite of NSA involvement. See what happened with Speck in the Linux kernel. https://lwn.net/Articles/761992/ https://lwn.net/Articles/761992/
- leosarev 4y agoAnd if you has to be Russian or China government certified, all this protocols are out of question.