Re:The strange story of “Extended Random”
by gumby on Saturday December 23, 2017 @06:46PM
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> In 2013, the Snowden revelations revealed the existence of a campaign to sabotage U.S. encryption systems.
Is the information assurance directorate even active any more? It's interesting that they played a role (perhaps unwitting) in reducing security, or at least that their efforts to improve things were surfed by the people who gave RSA $10M.
Back in the days when Brian Snow ran it I actually thought the ISD was on the side of the good guys, especially when we learned (via IBM) that their changes to the s-box had improved things.
Is the information assurance directorate even active any more? It's interesting that they played a role (perhaps unwitting) in reducing security, or at least that their efforts to improve things were surfed by the people who gave RSA $10M.
Back in the days when Brian Snow ran it I actually thought the ISD was on the side of the good guys, especially when we learned (via IBM) that their changes to the s-box had improved things.