Does any one have any opiniated and /or useful thoughts on the Snowden
leak stating/claiming/suggesting hat NSA has injected their own code
into a bunch of SSL implementations?
Or are we not allowed to talk about that. ;-)
If it is as suggested, by limiting the random number generator to not
be so random, it has big similarities with what was discovered in the
Debian Linux distribution some time ago and got a fair amount of
(bad) press at the time.
Based on that, one would expect security organisations to scan a huge
amount of generated keys for "randomness". Or am I missing something
here? Sure, the NSA are clever, but are tehy more clever than the collective of
all security geeks and expert all over the world? Or is this a US only
insertion? They do have quite some funny laws with regards to
export of security implementations in the US...
Cheers,
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/ony