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Great summary. "The NSA was deeply concerned with the public adoption by Americans of cryptography that they couldn’t break". Kind of a crazy concept, the age
by bsirkia 13y ago
Great summary.
"The NSA was deeply concerned with the public adoption by Americans of cryptography that they couldn’t break".
Kind of a crazy concept, the agency tasked with our security can't let our own personal security be too high.
- gaius 13y agoQuite. Assuming that SELinux is secure[1] the NSA's mission should have been to get it as widely adopted as possible, say. Same with GCHQ, it's #1 priority should have been securing the systems of the UK, both public and private sector. [1] Open source doesn't help here, if the flaw is in the algorithm or the seeds of it.
- jordigh 13y ago> Open source doesn't help here, if the flaw is in the algorithm or the seeds of it. Don't be so cynical about the intelligence of the smart cow. The smart cows were able to figure out that the elliptic curve proposed by NIST was backdoored by the NSA because it was basically choosing public keys to which the NSA had the private keys. The smart cows actually figured this out a long time ago, way before the Snowden leaks. So far, free access to the source has enabled us to find the holes.