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How is being from RSA labs an advantage? I'd estimate that it's more likely that there are government backdoors in RSA crypto than in other variants.
by grandalf 15y ago
How is being from RSA labs an advantage? I'd estimate that it's more likely that there are government backdoors in RSA crypto than in other variants.
- tptacek 15y agoAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IT BURNS IT BURNS
- marshray 15y agoFor one, it's something the government uses for its own crypto. Unlike some crypto standards, PBKDF2 is just something too simple and too user-configurable to be able to hide a meaningful hole in. Given that PBKDF1 was found to be less-than-ideal and depracated in favor of the better PBKDF2, it would be a very risky proposition to attempt to weaken it in a way that gave a meaningful advantage to one party over the other.
- JoachimSchipper 15y agoPBKDF2 is a fairly "obvious" construction (it's mostly just repeated HMAC'ing); it would be really hard to hide anything clever in it.