Bruce Schneier personal blog
Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007)
Random numbers are critical for cryptography: for encryption keys, random authentication challenges, initialization vectors, nonces, key-agreement schemes, generating prime numbers and so on. Break the random-number generator, and most of the time you break the entire security system. Which is why you should worry…
- Points
- 174
- HN comments
- 93
- Submissions
- 1
- Cited by
- 6 commenters
Security & PrivacyMath & Algorithms2012
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 2012 | Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007) by Jach | 174 | 93 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 6 Hacker News comments by 6 different people, from Dec 2010 to Sep 2013.
Most recent:
