[Cryptography] AES-256- More NIST-y? paranoia

[Faré]

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am even
> starting to think that maybe we should start using the NSA checksum
> approach.
>
> Incidentally, that checksum could be explained simply by padding prepping an
> EC encrypted session key. PKCS#1 has similar stuff to ensure that there is
> no known plaintext in there. Using the encryption algorithm instead of the
> OAEP hash function makes much better sense.
>
Wait, am I misunderstanding, or is the NSA recommending that people
"checksum" by leaving behind the key encrypted with a backdoor the NSA
and the NSA only can read? Wow.

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