Re: [TLS] Extended random is NSA backdoor

  Strike that; I found it.

  Dan.

On Mon, March 31, 2014 9:55 am, Dan Harkins wrote:
>
>   Hi Trevor,
>
> On Mon, March 31, 2014 9:06 am, Trevor Perrin wrote:
>> Hi Rene,
>>
>> The revelation that NSA used this Working Group in an attempt to
>> promote TLS extensions which amplify the backdoor is new:
>>
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rescorla-tls-opaque-prf-input/
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rescorla-tls-extended-random/
>
>   By "backdoor" do you mean Dual_EC:DRBG? If so, what do you mean by
> "amplify the backdoor"?
>
>   Dan.
>
>>
>> Trevor
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Rene Struik <rstruik.ext@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Dear colleagues:
>>>
>>> Not sure what is new here. The paper (with an impressive list of nine
>>> (!)
>>> co-authors) seems to be simply a validation of results already
>>> described
>>> in
>>> the Crypto 2007 rump session paper by Ferguson et al and in the
>>> teachings of
>>> a 2005 US patent application.
>>>
>>> Best regards, Rene
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/31/2014 10:45 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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>>>> On 3/31/2014 7:40 AM, Tom Ritter wrote:
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>>>>> Looks like this has the technical details: http://dualec.org/
>>>>>
>>>> Gracias.
>>>>
>>>> - - ferg
>>>>
>>>>> -tom
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - -- Paul Ferguson
>>>> VP Threat Intelligence, IID
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