Sneaking Backdoors into the Rulebooks | Major Influences of Spy Agencies on Encryption (Part 2)

The cyber security field thrives on standards. It’s how we hold each other accountable. A lot of those standards are published by NIST. In the late 90s, development for one proposal, dual_ec_drbg, was taken over by the NSA. Suspicious changes were made. These changes were called out by experts in the field. They couldn’t prove anything nefarious, but still pointed to magic numbers in the proposal and raised their concerns. For some reason it didn’t matter and the proposal, backdoor and all, became an official published NIST standard. RSA security, a huge company that still exists, quickly adopted the standard and began spreading the backdoor across the world. Honest mistake right? lol. Lmao even.
Reporting by reuters and leaks by Edward Snowden confirmed the suspicions

Sources:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-the-nsa-may-have-put-a-backdoor-in-rsas-cryptography-a-techni
cal-primer/
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_sto.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220/
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