On 02/24/2009 12:59 PM, John Hasler wrote:
Ron Johnson writes:
[An NSA backdoor in DES & successors] would only be possible if The
Government controlled the source code, or had an "understanding" with
those who write closed-source code.
The claim is stronger than that. It is that there are backdoors in the
algorithms: weaknesses that only NSA knows how to exploit. I find this
extremely unlikely for several obvious reasons.
Mainly that lots of academic mathematicians have looked at it and at
least one of them is "anti-American" enough to squeal like a stuck
pig...
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