Re: [Cfrg] NSA re-org and its impact
Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com> Wed, 03 February 2016 03:55 UTC
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From: Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 19:54:56 -0800
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] NSA re-org and its impact
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On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com> wrote: > The NSA is re-organizing to merge its signals intelligence (attack) and > information assurance (protect) into one unit. The NSA is, by US Law, the > official advisor to NIST on cryptography. NIST has a pretty admirable track > record of crypto (exceptions being mostly when they were misled by their > official expert). Things may change now. Or not. YMMV. > At a time when NIST needs to restore trust, it would seem rather unwise for them to accept any unjustified parameters from the NSA like they did with Dual_EC_DRBG (and hopefully they prefer well-scrutinized, widely trusted standards such as the CFRG curves) Dual_EC_DRBG was a debacle, but short of the NSA making massive advances over the public sector in cryptography and therefore being able to hide a backdoor in plain sight it seems like the sort of trick they can only pull once... This is clearly a bad development, but hopefully NIST learned its lesson the last time around. -- Tony Arcieri
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- Re: [Cfrg] NSA re-org and its impact Yoav Nir
- Re: [Cfrg] NSA re-org and its impact Tony Arcieri
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