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In the field of cryptography, a secretly planted “backdoor” that allows eavesdropping on communications is usually a subject of paranoia and dread. But that doesn’t mean cryptographers don’t appreciate the art of skilled cyphersabotage. Now one group of crypto experts has published an appraisal of different methods of weakening crypto systems, and the lesson is that some backdoors are clearly better than others—in stealth, deniability, and even in protecting the victims’ privacy from spies other than the backdoor’s creator.
In a paper titled “Surreptitiously Weakening Cryptographic Systems,” well-known cryptographer and author Bruce Schneier and researchers from the Universities of Wisconsin and Washington take the spy’s view to the problem of crypto design: What kind of built-in backdoor surveillance works best ?
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/sabotage-encryption-software-get-caught/
[Paper]: http://www.scribd.com/doc/257059894/Surreptitiously-Weakening-Cryptographic-Systems
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 01 2015, @12:35AM
This entire Haskell Debian build server disaster is extremely disconcerting. I'm bothered by the fact that it happened in the first place. I'm bothered by the fact that they went 10 days without giving a status update. I'm bothered by the fact that we still haven't gotten any real answers from them. Everything about it is disturbing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 01 2015, @04:28AM
for every hole there's a mole.