NSA payed RSA to install faulty backdoor encryption

[bluemeanie1]

http://www.altchain.org/?q=content/nsa-payed-rsa-install-faulty-encryption

As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.

[empoweoqwj]

http://www.altchain.org/?q=content/nsa-payed-rsa-install-faulty-encryption

As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.

This has been discussed in other threads already.

[DavidZ]

http://www.altchain.org/?q=content/nsa-payed-rsa-install-faulty-encryption

As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.

This has been discussed in other threads already.

Can you provide a link to back up that claim?

[empoweoqwj]

http://www.altchain.org/?q=content/nsa-payed-rsa-install-faulty-encryption

As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.

This has been discussed in other threads already.

Can you provide a link to back up that claim?

I could, or you could search for it yourself. That's what the forum search function is for.

[antithetical]

http://www.altchain.org/?q=content/nsa-payed-rsa-install-faulty-encryption

As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.

This has been discussed in other threads already.

Can you provide a link to back up that claim?

I can:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=379948.msg4116290#msg4116290

[jackjack]

bluemeanie1 spreading FUD
Again



Did you notice what is his source?
His own website

[bluemeanie1]

http://www.altchain.org/?q=content/nsa-payed-rsa-install-faulty-encryption

As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.

This has been discussed in other threads already.

Can you provide a link to back up that claim?

hey David,

 unfortunately the altchain.org site was hacked recently so that link no longer works.  ASMOF, it was hacked not long after that link was posted.

 seems you are new here, most of of the people posting here are running cheap scams and take offense when anyone takes attention away from them for a moment.  There is at least one person posting to this thread on my ignore list.  I can't even imagine how someone could possibly read this forum without an extensive block list because a good 80+% of the posts are useless, distractions, scams, etc.

-bm

[DavidZ]

http://www.altchain.org/?q=content/nsa-payed-rsa-install-faulty-encryption

As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.

This has been discussed in other threads already.

Can you provide a link to back up that claim?

hey David,

 unfortunately the altchain.org site was hacked recently so that link no longer works.  ASMOF, it was hacked not long after that link was posted.

 seems you are new here, most of of the people posting here are running cheap scams and take offense when anyone takes attention away from them for a moment.  There is at least one person posting to this thread on my ignore list.  I can't even imagine how someone could possibly read this forum without an extensive block list because a good 80+% of the posts are useless, distractions, scams, etc.

-bm

Thanks blue,

Yep I'm starting to get the impression. If you know of any other bitcoin/anarcho-capitalist forums not infested with trolls pm me.

[DavidZ]

The web site is back up, fascinating article. Despicable conduct by the "folks" at the NSA and I'm glad their scam has been exposed thanks to the genius and heroism of Edward Snowden.

[bluemeanie1]

The web site is back up, fascinating article. Despicable conduct by the "folks" at the NSA and I'm glad their scam has been exposed thanks to the genius and heroism of Edward Snowden.

ya, It's really incredible that they are running this enormous scam right under the public's noses.  I had even stated on here a number of months ago that our crypto standards are sabotaged by the NSA, the general response from the people on here was that this was a nonsense 'conspiracy theory'.

The real story is starting to come to light, that the field of cryptography is something like a scientific con game.

[empoweoqwj]

The web site is back up, fascinating article. Despicable conduct by the "folks" at the NSA and I'm glad their scam has been exposed thanks to the genius and heroism of Edward Snowden.

ya, It's really incredible that they are running this enormous scam right under the public's noses.  I had even stated on here a number of months ago that our crypto standards are sabotaged by the NSA, the general response from the people on here was that this was a nonsense 'conspiracy theory'.

The real story is starting to come to light, that the field of cryptography is something like a scientific con game.

But what to do?

[DavidZ]

The web site is back up, fascinating article. Despicable conduct by the "folks" at the NSA and I'm glad their scam has been exposed thanks to the genius and heroism of Edward Snowden.

ya, It's really incredible that they are running this enormous scam right under the public's noses.  I had even stated on here a number of months ago that our crypto standards are sabotaged by the NSA, the general response from the people on here was that this was a nonsense 'conspiracy theory'.

The real story is starting to come to light, that the field of cryptography is something like a scientific con game.

But what to do?

Having studied computer science I can tell you that cryptography is not a con. Strong encryption is entirely possible; just need to be wary of backdoors.

As to what you can do: Hire a trusted programmer to write your own cryptography application.

[empoweoqwj]

The web site is back up, fascinating article. Despicable conduct by the "folks" at the NSA and I'm glad their scam has been exposed thanks to the genius and heroism of Edward Snowden.

ya, It's really incredible that they are running this enormous scam right under the public's noses.  I had even stated on here a number of months ago that our crypto standards are sabotaged by the NSA, the general response from the people on here was that this was a nonsense 'conspiracy theory'.

The real story is starting to come to light, that the field of cryptography is something like a scientific con game.

But what to do?

Having studied computer science I can tell you that cryptography is not a con. Strong encryption is entirely possible; just need to be wary of backdoors.

As to what you can do: Hire a trusted programmer to write your own cryptography application.

Any idea how much something like TrueCrypt would cost to write from scratch?

[DavidZ]

The web site is back up, fascinating article. Despicable conduct by the "folks" at the NSA and I'm glad their scam has been exposed thanks to the genius and heroism of Edward Snowden.

ya, It's really incredible that they are running this enormous scam right under the public's noses.  I had even stated on here a number of months ago that our crypto standards are sabotaged by the NSA, the general response from the people on here was that this was a nonsense 'conspiracy theory'.

The real story is starting to come to light, that the field of cryptography is something like a scientific con game.

But what to do?

Having studied computer science I can tell you that cryptography is not a con. Strong encryption is entirely possible; just need to be wary of backdoors.

As to what you can do: Hire a trusted programmer to write your own cryptography application.

Any idea how much something like TrueCrypt would cost to write from scratch?

A smart uni student should be able to bash out an implementation of one of the many encryption open standards in a few months. It just wouldn't have all the fancy (yet useless) "bells and whistles" one get with commercial software.

[bluemeanie1]

The web site is back up, fascinating article. Despicable conduct by the "folks" at the NSA and I'm glad their scam has been exposed thanks to the genius and heroism of Edward Snowden.

ya, It's really incredible that they are running this enormous scam right under the public's noses.  I had even stated on here a number of months ago that our crypto standards are sabotaged by the NSA, the general response from the people on here was that this was a nonsense 'conspiracy theory'.

The real story is starting to come to light, that the field of cryptography is something like a scientific con game.

But what to do?

Having studied computer science I can tell you that cryptography is not a con. Strong encryption is entirely possible; just need to be wary of backdoors.

As to what you can do: Hire a trusted programmer to write your own cryptography application.

while avoiding standards can sometimes give you better security the problem is the level of security is UNKNOWN.  In addition you have to build and support your own standards, and most importantly you need to promote your own standards.  Who is going to trust 'Bob's super special encryption algorithm'?  (at this point who is going to trust NSA's super special encryption algorithm? ).

the way the field of crypto works is that the 'officials' namely the NSA and friends declare various standards usable ONLY after they have fully vetted mathematical backdoors into the algorithms.  ECC had been around for decades, but only after they had established a deep body of work in the field of elliptic curves(Wiles' Fermat Proof) was ECC given the green light, standards are published and supporting technology is released.  Generally most people use the standardized packages for their crypto and apparently knowledge to implement your own is scarcely to be found.  Bouncy Castle is a good example, it started as an independent project but seems to have taken on a different life these days.  It would interesting to know what relevance the standardized curves have in the work Wiles' established, but I don't have the time to work it out.

unfortunately there are people on here who might have managed to get through the basics of cryptography who then declare themselves 'experts'.  There was an earlier thread that one person on here is stalking me as a result of where there were errors in the EC equations, I point this out and suddenly I provoke the ire of a number of anonymous self-appointed experts... and so it goes.  If you take the opinions on a board like this seriously, you have a screw loose.

[The Goat Master]

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