How NOT to Introduce Backdoors in Encryption Algorithms
Posted by Scott on Nov 15th, 2007
Crypto geeks are buzzing with today’s Bruce Schneier article in Wired. Schneier questions some suspicious contributions by the NSA to the random number generator of a forthcoming encryption standard. Unfortunately, the most likely conclusion to draw is that a backdoor is being deliberately introduced. It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few weeks.
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