Comment by ethbr1

2 years ago

You mean ANSI/ISO/NIST and Dual_EC_DRBG, that everyone suspected had a backdoor before it was included as one of multiple options? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG#Timeline_of_Dua...

Or the s-boxes in DES, that the NSA suggested to IBM + NIST's predecessor, so as to be resistant to then-not-widely-known differential cryptanalysis? https://web.archive.org/web/20120106042939/http://securespee...

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sneak  2 years ago

One of those things happened after 9/11, and one of those things happened before.

There is a widely held belief that the US IC changed fundamentally in terms of their regard for their own raison d’etre that day.

  • ethbr1  2 years ago

    It'll be curious, looking back from the near future, what prompted the next fundamental change.

    I'd like to think the US is in the midst of that now, with the Afghan withdrawal and Ukraine war.

nvy  2 years ago

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  • bonzini  2 years ago

    He/she means that there have been good things coming out of the NSA/NIST collaborations (another example is SHA0->SHA1, introducing a "mysterious" left shift that made SHA1 much stronger), and the bad ones are caught quickly.