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Title: Don't Use NSA-Influenced Code in Our Products, Security Company Warns Post by: Ephebus on September 20, 2013, 10:56:27 PM Don't Use NSA-Influenced Code in Our Products, Security Company Warns
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/rsa-security-dual-eg-drbg,news-17580.html (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/rsa-security-dual-eg-drbg,news-17580.html) "The National Security Agency (NSA) has sabotaged at least one of the security standards used to secure many online and offline transactions, according to a Sept. 5 New York Times article." Title: Re: Don't Use NSA-Influenced Code in Our Products, Security Company Warns Post by: polarhei on September 21, 2013, 02:52:00 PM BITCOIN is designed as open source, if there is a defect found, since it is for society, people will get something fixed, the process can be quick. That's why some people tried to break down but failed if it is open sourced.
Title: Re: Don't Use NSA-Influenced Code in Our Products, Security Company Warns Post by: Ephebus on September 21, 2013, 04:36:56 PM Noone was saying Bitcoin is compromised by this. This is the Off-topic forum - description: "Other topics that might be of interest to bitcoiners" - and cryptography related news definitely fit that criteria.
* * * Major US security company warns over NSA link to encryption formula http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/21/rsa-emc-warning-encryption-system-nsa "RSA, the security arm of EMC, sends email to customers over default random number generator which uses weak formula." |