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Does anyone really still trust these guys after the revelations of the last decade? Seems to me they had their fingers in a lot of pies.
by djha-skin 4y ago
Does anyone really still trust these guys after the revelations of the last decade? Seems to me they had their fingers in a lot of pies.
- AndrewKemendo 4y agoCan you point to some specific complaints of wrongdoing? NIST generally doesn’t have any “power” that they can abuse - unless you consider any standards organization an abuse of sovereignty or some such
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- fintler 4y agoIt's not exactly recent, but Dual_EC_DRGB wasn't handled well. (pdf) https://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Vol13Iss2_Kostyuk-Landau_Dual-EC-DRGB.pdf https://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Vol13Iss2_...
- MattPalmer1086 4y agoNo, that wasn't handled well and it damaged them. The NSA were the ones who backdoored it though, and NIST ignored warnings of a possible back door. However, in general NIST standards are very good.
- AndrewKemendo 4y agoWhich was rescended…so I’m not sure what the complaint is This is about as good as it gets for any organization