A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: Attack of the week: FREAK (or 'factoring the NSA...
If you don't know what these are, in year 1999 the US government raised the limit to 56-bit encryption and 1024-bit RSA. They were described in https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-56-bit-ciphersuites-01
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Hasnain says:
" Encryption backdoors will always turn around and bite you in the ass. They are never worth it."
Posted on 2015-03-04T02:13:13+0000