On Security Backdoors
Freedom to Tinker 2013-09-11
Summary:
I wrote Monday about revelations that the NSA might have been inserting backdoors into security standards. Today I want to talk through two cases where the NSA has been accused of backdooring standards, and use these cases to differentiate between two types of backdoors. The first case concerns a NIST standard, SP 800-90A, which specifies [...]