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NSA perfidy of the day

2013-09-09 16:10:48.80206+00 by Dan Lyke 4 comments

Bruce Schneier looks at whether the NSA put a backdoor in the NIST Special Publication 800-90 Dual_EC_DRBG (Deterministic Random Bit Generator).

And I could swear I linked to an article quoting one of the Brit spooks on "economic issues" being a reason to spy, but can't find it. The NSA has been using "economics" as a justification to break into the networks and computer systems of private companies.

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#Comment Re: made: 2013-09-09 18:45:24.438648+00 by: Dan Lyke

Oh yeah, and in case you missed it: Obama administrations had restrictions on the NSA looking specifically for communications by U.S. citizens reversed in 2011.

#Comment Re: made: 2013-09-09 19:41:18.202435+00 by: Larry Burton

And Johns Hopkins has asked Matthew Green to remove this blog post from university servers.

#Comment Re: made: 2013-09-09 22:31:40.442708+00 by: Dan Lyke

Ed Felten points out that the NSA used to secretly intervene to improve the security of encryption, and promises to get into showing more ways that now they apparently are doing exactly the opposite.

#Comment Re: made: 2013-09-10 15:53:56.795314+00 by: Dan Lyke

RT Christopher Soghoian ‏@csoghoian:

NIST statement regarding recent reports suggesting they are in bed with NSA. Yes, NSA slept over, but on the sofa. http://go.usa.gov/DWhh

http://www.nist.gov/director/cybersecuritystatement-091013.cfm