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Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)
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[–] Jaderick@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I know someone in this field and sent him this article. He said the “NIST isn’t being transparent” claim isn’t true

https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=927303 https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2020/NIST.IR.8309.pdf https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=934458

He also responded with “of course the NSA would try and mess with it, but if it’s peer reviewed properly I don’t see how they would be successful”

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We know for a fact that they have done it in the past and managed to hide it until it was too late, what makes you think they can't do it again?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

[–] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Looking at the history of the any of the Clandestine US orgs should probably remind us these people will do literally anything that they can, like give people LSD in an attempt to control their mind, or put microphones in Russian cats.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 14 points 1 year ago

but if it’s peer reviewed properly

Is it?

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did you send him Bernstein's original blog post?

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20231003-countcorrectly.html

Unless he's just making all of this up, it does seem pretty damning. I would love to see an in-depth rebuttal.