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Re: [Cryptography] RSA equivalent key length/strength
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sat Sep 21 18:17:58 2013
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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:34:58 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@links.org>
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
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On 18 September 2013 22:23, Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> wrote:
> According to published reports that I saw, NSA/DoD pays $250M (per
> year?) to backdoor cryptographic implementations. I have knowledge of
> only one such effort. That effort involved DoD/NSA paying $10M to a
> leading cryptographic library provider to both implement and set as
> the default the obviously backdoored Dual_EC_DRBG as the default RNG.
>
Surprise! The "leading blah blah" was RSA:
http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-332655/.
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">=
On 18 September 2013 22:23, Lucky Green <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"ma=
ilto:shamrock@cypherpunks.to" target=3D"_blank">shamrock@cypherpunks.to</a>=
></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-=
left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;p=
adding-left:1ex"><div id=3D":1m0" style=3D"overflow:hidden">According to pu=
blished reports that I saw, <span class=3D"">NSA</span>/DoD pays $250M (per=
<br>
year?) to backdoor cryptographic implementations. I have knowledge of<br>
only one such effort. That effort involved DoD/<span class=3D"">NSA</span> =
paying $10M to a<br>
leading cryptographic library provider to both implement and set as<br>
the default the obviously backdoored Dual_EC_DRBG as the default RNG.</div>=
</blockquote></div><br>Surprise! The "leading blah blah" was RSA:=
=A0<a href=3D"http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-=
332655/">http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-33265=
5/</a>.</div>
<div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br></div></div>
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