[HN Gopher] NSA Swears It Won't Allow Backdoors in New Encryptio...
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       NSA Swears It Won't Allow Backdoors in New Encryption Standards;)
        
       Author : arkadiyt
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2022-05-16 18:33 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (gizmodo.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (gizmodo.com)
        
       | serenitylater wrote:
        
       | voakbasda wrote:
       | "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Sorry,
       | but they have ruined their trust reputation when it comes to
       | these matters. Anyone that remembers their past shenanigans
       | should take this announcement with an entire pillar of salt.
        
       | sylware wrote:
       | "We swear that our mathematicians don't know of any way to make
       | those standards weak and reasonably breakable, that even before
       | being published. Yes, really, we swear.... truuuuust uuuuuus!
       | 
       | And with 0-d... err... 0 "convenient bugs" in our hardware
       | without toxic IP and lean and sane software (including our back-
       | door generators... err... we meant the gcc/llvm/icc compilers),
       | this will give us a bright and very secure (for our interests...
       | err... "common" interests) digital future."
       | 
       | ...
        
       | drKarl wrote:
       | Pinky promise
        
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