[Cryptography] actual NSA protocol docs to mine...

Ryan Carboni ryacko at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 00:25:23 EST 2015


>
> This is an odd document:
>
> - RSA-128 (what we usually write as a 1024 bit key) for public key crypto;
> - RC6-16 as the symmetric encryption function;
> - SHA1 for hashing.
>
> So no NSA-specific crypto at all.  An attempt at deniability, since the
> code would be "published" in attacked systems?
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC6#NSA_preferred_cipher.3F

oddly enough, Appelbaum is right in his baseless accusations
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