On 02/24/2009 03:35 PM, ow...@netptc.net wrote:
[snip]
Ron et al
Actually this was the case with the DES; the NSA put out a RFP and
worked with the potential vendors quite closely during the
development. IBM (Tuchman and Myers) eventually won the bid. I
attended a week-long security seminar series in which Myers himself
vociferously denied the trap-door theory. Who can tell?
*You* (or, more specifically, anyone who knows cryptography) can
tell whether an algorithm has weaknesses, like a back door. A
sufficiently competent programmer can find back doors in code (cc
not withstanding).
No such back doors were ever found in OSS implementations of DES or AES.
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