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Author Name: Alec Muffett
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If I was the NSA in 2013, still smarting from a Snowden-induced loss of capability, I’d go long on hiring smart nerds to do research whilst building a credible yet overblown threat narrative for extan

2024-11-19 19:52:19+00:00

…with the intention of getting the world to rapidly, even panickedly migrate from burned backdoors towards new, largely untested-in-battle algorithms that we’d be in a far better position to game than anyone else.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in news: NIST to deprecate Elliptic Curve by 2035: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2024/NIST.IR.8547.ipd.pdf

“Me? Trust NIST? Oh for some things, certainly…”
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