hereforawhile@lemmy.mlM to Secure Coms@lemmy.ml · 26 days agoHow the NSA can break trillions of encrypted Web and VPN connectionsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down12
arrow-up111arrow-down1external-linkHow the NSA can break trillions of encrypted Web and VPN connectionsarstechnica.comhereforawhile@lemmy.mlM to Secure Coms@lemmy.ml · 26 days agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squareCypher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·26 days agoThe NSA paid RSA, to ‘backdoor’ the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator which was pushed as an industry standard for years. I don’t see why they wouldn’t have done the same with more recent algorithms.
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·26 days agoThat was P256 Dual_EC_DRBG. x25519 has been the defacto replacement since 2015ish
The NSA paid RSA, to ‘backdoor’ the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator which was pushed as an industry standard for years.
I don’t see why they wouldn’t have done the same with more recent algorithms.
That was P256 Dual_EC_DRBG. x25519 has been the defacto replacement since 2015ish