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Crypto-guru Slams 'NSA-proof' Tech

posted by Woods on Saturday May 17 2014, @03:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the complex-cryptography-cannot-cover-corner-cutting dept.

AnonTechie writes:

In a presentation titled "Crypto Won't Save You" at the AusCERT conference on Australia's Gold Coast, respected cryptographer Peter Gutmann of the University of Auckland took security bods through a decade of breaches featuring a laundry list of the world's biggest brands. Gutmann's point was to demonstrate how the weakest point of cryptography was typically in its implementation rather than the maths itself. He demonstrated that consumer devices from the Amazon Kindle to the Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox consoles were hacked not because of weak cryptography, but due to poor deployment of security mechanisms, which were bypassed by attackers.

View Gutmann's 95-page slide deck here (PDF).

 
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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by black6host on Saturday May 17 2014, @04:40AM

    by black6host (3827) on Saturday May 17 2014, @04:40AM (#44578) Journal

    From the summary (and article): ... took security bods through....

    What is a security bod? Perhaps Australian slang for people? I know frequently that those that are not American are frequently subjected to terms we Americans take for granted. Now I know how they might feel :)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 17 2014, @04:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 17 2014, @04:43AM (#44580)

    And of course, my sentence doesn't parse well either. Scratch the first "frequently" please :) My question though was an honest request for information.

  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday May 17 2014, @06:40AM

    by frojack (1554) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 17 2014, @06:40AM (#44596) Journal

    Its the Register. Nuff said.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by snakeplissken on Saturday May 17 2014, @09:05AM

    by snakeplissken (972) on Saturday May 17 2014, @09:05AM (#44608)

    What is a security bod?

    bod = body = person (usually alive:) )

    snake