Re:Government Announces Steps to Restore Confidence on Encry...
by ReidZB on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @01:53AM
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I suppose that was a bit presumptuous of me. My apologies.
The whole spiel has made several rounds on HN, though [1], and Ars reported again on the matter about a week ago [2]. But I do acknowledge that doesn't necessarily mean much... not everyone has the time (or the inclination!) to follow such matters.
[1] https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=dual_ec_drbg&s...
[2] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/the-nsas-work-to-mak...
Re:Government Announces Steps to Restore Confidence on Encry...
by throwaway_yy2Di on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @02:17AM
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"The whole spiel has made several rounds on HN, though [1]"
If you look at this discussions, HN commenters were very skeptical this was an NSA backdoor. The speculative possibility isn't news; the fact very much is.
Re:Government Announces Steps to Restore Confidence on Encry...
by ReidZB on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @09:20AM
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That's the thing, though: this article doesn't say that the NSA did generate the Dual_EC_DRBG constants with a backdoor in mind. It just says that internal memos suggest and appear to confirm that they did.
That is, the article isn't really anything new.
Re:Government Announces Steps to Restore Confidence on Encry...
by eliasmacpherson on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @05:53AM
(#6366305)
Yes, news to me and that it's reported by the New York Times no less, albeit on a blog, makes it less of a conspiracy theory and less controvertible. I'd say it's more like this is news to 99.99999%
Kind of shocking, N.I.S.T and the C.S.E with their pants down.
This one sentence is a _remarkably easy way_ to kill a story for the 99.9% of the world who this is news for.
"Everyone" indeed.