NSA paid firm millions to ship deliberately flawed encryption technology!

[BlueNote]

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/20/nsa-reportedly-paid-a-security-firm-millions-to-ship-deliberately-flawed-encryption-technology/

How nice. So much for trusting "security firms" who sell "encryption technology," eh? In these times you just can't trust anything that isn't open source. You have to assume there's a backdoor in everything.

Who needs paranoia and conspiracy theories anymore when we have the news?

[7Priest7]

Long story short, Don't use propriatary garbage.
Use TrueCrypt/multiOTP or another open source encryption/security software instead.

[Abdussamad]

Long story short, Don't use propriatary garbage.
Use TrueCrypt or another open source encryption software instead.

The algo in question *is* open source. The problem is not open source or closed source. It is that the NSA has the best minds in crypto and no one else comes close.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that even bitcoin is an NSA invention. It's right up their alley.

[7Priest7]

The algo in question *is* open source. The problem is not open source or closed source. It is that the NSA has the best minds in crypto and no one else comes close.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that even bitcoin is an NSA invention. It's right up their alley.

Source?
I can find nothing indicating the RSA has any open source available.
The flaw was not the algorithm, it was a flawed random number generator that the NSA pressured the RSA into using.

Bitcoin is wholly open source,
At the price per BTC so high,
if there was a vulnerability someone would've exploited it by now.

[seriouscoin]

Long story short, Don't use propriatary garbage.
Use TrueCrypt or another open source encryption software instead.

The algo in question *is* open source. The problem is not open source or closed source. It is that the NSA has the best minds in crypto and no one else comes close.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that even bitcoin is an NSA invention. It's right up their alley.

Your anti-american is really showing....

Shut up if you dont know the issue isnt *any* freaking algorithm but a RNG....

You can use a flawed RNG in any algorithm and it will turn that algorithm vulnerable.

Got that kid?