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posted by Fnord666 on Friday September 22 2017, @02:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the damaged-reputations dept.

An international group of cryptography experts has forced the U.S. National Security Agency to back down over two data encryption techniques it wanted set as global industry standards, reflecting deep mistrust among close U.S. allies.

In interviews and emails seen by Reuters, academic and industry experts from countries including Germany, Japan and Israel worried that the U.S. electronic spy agency was pushing the new techniques not because they were good encryption tools, but because it knew how to break them.

The NSA has now agreed to drop all but the most powerful versions of the techniques - those least likely to be vulnerable to hacks - to address the concerns.

Have the chickens come home to roost for the NSA, or should we distrust the report that they backed down?


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  • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Friday September 22 2017, @03:13PM (3 children)

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Friday September 22 2017, @03:13PM (#571663)

    Actually that was the CIA's doing - they likely have the NSA convinced that it can crack HTTPS, when in reality everything is fabricated.

    Even the existence of the CIA itself is likely a psy-op. I doubt they even exist.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @03:40PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @03:40PM (#571672)

    I think linkdude has devolved to 32 bit.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @07:21PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @07:21PM (#571754)

      Actually that's his fallback means of transmission. Probably triggered by a MITM-attack by the NSA.

    • (Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Saturday September 23 2017, @01:28AM

      by TheGratefulNet (659) on Saturday September 23 2017, @01:28AM (#571928)

      not sure if it was big or little indians...

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