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It is very likely the NSA has an good understanding of the weaknesses of various algorithms in the face of their technology. After all that's their job. The com
by groestl 3y ago
It is very likely the NSA has an good understanding of the weaknesses of various algorithms in the face of their technology. After all that's their job. The comment above also makes sense when the NIST is advised by the NSA to influence their processes as to choose algorithms to their liking, no design by NIST needed.
- tptacek 3y agoThe "major security problem" the previous commenter is referring to is an NSA design, not a competition winner. I think what's happened here is that you've read the preceding comment too generously, in particular by skipping big chunks of it.
- groestl 3y agoI did not skip any parts, previous commenter is generalizing from this major security problem to a non-trustworthy NIST in general, and one power NIST has is to choose algorithms as standards which are known (to them) to be weak. While this is a discussion on probability and trustworthiness, where you can reasonably take stand on both sides, the argument itself is sound.
- tptacek 3y agoYeah, you did. "any non-trivial numbers have to have a documented generation path, and any non-trivial numbers in those steps also have to have a documented generation path". This doesn't make any sense as a concern if you understand what Kyber is.
- groestl 3y agoYou conveniently skipped the "e.g." part.