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<blockquote data-quote="hedrick" data-source="post: 70501408" data-attributes="member: 239032"><p>Now, on cryptography. The Feds were (by inference) caught not long ago having inserted provisions in a cryptographic standard that appears to have intentionally weakened it. Your first reaction (and the actual reaction of most of the security community) is to say that we can no longer depend upon any cryptographic technology that has had government input. </p><p></p><p>But that has its dangers. First, industry often cooperates with them, so it’s hard to know what’s actually independent. Second, because of the huge budgets available, their knowledge is often ahead of the outside world’s. As an example, the DES spec had unexplained changes made by the NSA (I think -- maybe the CIA). In retrospect it appears that they knew of a type of attack that no one else did, and they strengthened the spec to defend against it. If you avoid anything with their input, you may end up adopting technology that they know how to compromise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hedrick, post: 70501408, member: 239032"] Now, on cryptography. The Feds were (by inference) caught not long ago having inserted provisions in a cryptographic standard that appears to have intentionally weakened it. Your first reaction (and the actual reaction of most of the security community) is to say that we can no longer depend upon any cryptographic technology that has had government input. But that has its dangers. First, industry often cooperates with them, so it’s hard to know what’s actually independent. Second, because of the huge budgets available, their knowledge is often ahead of the outside world’s. As an example, the DES spec had unexplained changes made by the NSA (I think -- maybe the CIA). In retrospect it appears that they knew of a type of attack that no one else did, and they strengthened the spec to defend against it. If you avoid anything with their input, you may end up adopting technology that they know how to compromise. [/QUOTE]
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