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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by croes on Sunday October 05, 2025 @08:59PM (#45486663)
You don’t need a backdoor in the encryption if you can backdoor the devices as such.

Crypto AG anyone?

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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by hedora on Sunday October 05, 2025 @10:15PM (#45487016)
In fairness, they backdoored the company, the crypto algorithms and the devices at Crypto AG.

Anyway, there are many more recent examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars

Don’t get me started on the unnecessary complexity added to TLS.

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