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 [...]

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https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/on-security-backdoors/

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Tags:

surveillance nsa security nist backdoor ipsec

Authors:

Ed Felten

Date tagged:

09/11/2013, 17:45

Date published:

09/11/2013, 06:11