Re:Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
by swordswinger12 on Friday December 20, 2013 @06:15PM
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>Any sufficiently skilled rouge actor
Not quite - finding the actual magic number that enables the backdoor would involve solving the discrete log problem for the suspicious constant in the spec. A more likely scenario is some disgruntled employee steals the number and sells it to the highest bidder.
Not quite - finding the actual magic number that enables the backdoor would involve solving the discrete log problem for the suspicious constant in the spec. A more likely scenario is some disgruntled employee steals the number and sells it to the highest bidder.