3 ms·

so with my cynic hat on, maybe a bunch of people already have that and that's why we're being moved off the hard stuff.

• staunton 2y ago
  The NSA had the option to do something like that when they (via NIST) standardized DES. They chose to standardize a version that's secure against attacks that only they knew at the time, shorten the key length so they can still brute-force it if they really need to, and successfully kept the attack secret until researchers at a foreign university independently discovered it decades later.
  • alphager 2y ago
    Yup, that was the older generation. The newer generation used NIST to propagate a backdoored RNG and to weaken several ECC-curves.