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Re: [Cryptography] NIST should publish Suite A
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ianG)
Mon Nov 11 13:14:22 2013
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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:31:07 +0300
From: ianG <iang@iang.org>
To: CodesInChaos <codesinchaos@gmail.com>
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On 10/11/13 16:14 PM, CodesInChaos wrote:
>> NIST should publish Suite A
>
> How would you verify that the published "Suite A" is the real Suite A?
Good question ... I guess there are likely 1000s of contractors that
know what the real Suite A consists of because they make kit that
includes it. Creating a 'deception suite' would have a low chance of
success, and failure to keep the secret will achieve worse results.
iang
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