[Cryptography] Crypto AG and CIA project exposed
Dennis E. Hamilton
dennis.hamilton at acm.org
Tue Feb 11 15:51:38 EST 2020
Danny Muizebelt said,
> For decades Crypto AG sold backdoored crypto solutions to governments.
Technically, there was no back door.
There were built-in crypto weaknesses that facilitated decryption of
intercepts by an adversary (in this case, the CIA/NSA).
Of course, the same defects could be exploited by other capable actors, and we
might not ever know.
- Dennis
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