[Cryptography] TAO, NSA crypto backdoor program

[ianG]

On 31/12/13 03:17 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
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>> On Dec 30, 2013, at 6:43 PM, David Maynor <dave at erratasec.com> wrote:
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>> You can’t appreciate the amazing engineering that went into all those toys? A lot of those things are right of of a spy movie. I can’t even being to imagine the engineering effort that goes into some of it.
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> The technology is somewhat meh afaik.
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> It's the cool code names that we discover with each dump that I live for.


They are supposed to be chosen at random, probably 16 bits of entropy in 
each one.  For our lowsec civilian purposes, they're almost good enough 
to feed them into our RNGs.

Only issue is the supply is a bit slow, but at least we claw back some 
of those taxpayer dollars...


iang