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Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)
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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I know someone in this field and sent him this article. He said the “NIST isn’t being transparent” claim isn’t true

https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=927303 https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2020/NIST.IR.8309.pdf https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=934458

He also responded with “of course the NSA would try and mess with it, but if it’s peer reviewed properly I don’t see how they would be successful”

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    We know for a fact that they have done it in the past and managed to hide it until it was too late, what makes you think they can't do it again?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    peer reviewed properly

    Is the important bit here. The timeline from that Wikipedia article shows it was published in 2005 and work disproving it’s claim came around in 2006.

    If a scientists work is retracted it really kills any more funding they receive. They use examples like the DRBG one as what not to be.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago*

    Looking at the history of the any of the Clandestine US orgs should probably remind us these people will do literally anything that they can, like give people LSD in an attempt to control their mind, or put microphones in Russian cats.

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