[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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