Re:Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can ...
by tablespoon on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @11:17AM
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> It's wise to impute shady motives to US government encryption efforts in light of probable DES skulduggery...
Huh? Didn't DES use NSA-provided unexplained magic numbers that many people were highly skeptical of, but actually made it more secure against an attack that was not publicly known?
Re:Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can ...
by er4hn on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @11:39AM
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The NSA does a lot of things, many of them in opposition to other internal departments. The problem is that you don't know the agenda of each team there, sometimes for decades.
Re:Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can ...
by rightbyte on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @12:16PM
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Ye it is kinda confusing having a spy agency also be the domestic data protection agency.
Re:Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can ...
by notreallyserio on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @12:34PM
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I bet they have pretty epic red/blue action, though.
https://csrc.nist.gov/news/2016/public-key-post-quantum-cryp...
That's from 2016. It's wise to impute shady motives to US government encryption efforts in light of probable DES skulduggery, the Clipper chip, Dual_EC_DRBG, and all the Snowden-era revelations about "implants" and NSA intercepting and modifying hardware.