Is There an NSA Back Door in Encryption Algorithms?
November 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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In general, security is not a beat we cover very deeply at IT Jungle. The enterprise-class platforms we cover are all designed with many different kinds of security, and we let experts worry about the very hairy details that go into securing platforms, much as end users themselves do when they trust encryption, antivirus, firewall, and other kinds of code. But what happens when the encryption code behind these products is flawed. A recent story in Wired magazine had a title that jumped out like a criminal wielding a gun: Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? |
