[Cryptography] NSA up to their old tricks - stuffing the IETF WGs with their supporters for weakened standards

[Peter Gutmann]

iang via cryptography <cryptography at metzdowd.com> quotes:

>The problem in a nutshell. Surveillance agency NSA and its partner GCHQ are
>trying to have standards-development organizations endorse weakening ECC+PQ
>down to just PQ.

Given that after 20 years and hundreds of millions of dollars spent
researchers have yet to demonstrate a single legitimate cryptanalysis result
using a quantum physics experiment, it's a bit like arguing over which brand
of unicorn repellent is the most cromulent.

The current state of things in terms of pure vs. hybrid systems seems to be:

Governments = Pure: “We’re putting all our eggs in one basket and hoping that
the dial stops spinning at ‘not broken’”

Everyone else = Hybrid: “We trust this new stuff so little that we’re
requiring you use the crypto that we claim is broken alongside it”

Peter.