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by throwaway654329 4y ago
This is one reason why political crimes are treated with different considerations under international treaties and in the day to day norms of states. The right to asylum, for example, in one country to avoid prosecution in another country
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
That’s a great project, thank you for the link. Take my upvote stranger.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Okay, I’m happy to disengage as well. Thank you for your time and also for your insight.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
You could also take the word of a person from deep inside the Obama administration: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/ben-rhodes-book-proves-obam...
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
> … I didn't acknowledge the majesty of the argument I had been confronted with. Gee, thanks, I think. Sorry to say we don’t agree on your summary of my comment. > Filippo Valsorda wrote a tweet that included a meme from "It
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
You said this up thread and I find it incorrect: > If you RTFA you'd know it pertains to bribery, not coercion By quoting the article it seems the text directly contradicts your summary as being too narrow. General coercion is als
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
> I didn't even notice a "punching down about mental health" thing. You wrote a long comment, I skimmed it. That tracks, okay. It’s the weekend and I’m a nobody on the internet. Thank you for talk the time to continue to e
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
What do I mean? Iran-Contra, Watergate, or a 9/11 report style report, like levels of investigation. Given how widely read the BULLRUN stories were, it’s not credible to suggest the details aren’t important. The American people deserve
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
To quote the article: At the risk of belaboring the obvious: An attacker won't have to say "Oops, researcher X is working in public and has just found an attack; can we suppress this somehow?" if the attacker had the common
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
One trivial example implied by the blog post: Such corruption could be involved in the non-transparent decision making process at NIST. Regarding Dual_EC: we still lack a lot of information about how this decision was made internally at
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
It can be everybody involved. It should include NIST based on the history alone. Some of the commentary on this topic is by people who also denied DUAL_EC until (correctly) conceding that it was actually a backdoor, actually deployed, and
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Your augment that the selection doesn’t pick his designs doesn’t square with SPHINCS+ winning, and with others remaining in the running. His former PhD student won with Kyber. Bernstein did very well here and you’re misleading people by sug
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
I am definitely not in that place. We clearly disagree on a few points. The issues raised in the blog post aren’t just about NIST mishandling the FOIA. By reducing it to the lawsuit, this is already a bad faith engagement. The blog post is
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
One says he’s doing it wrong. The other says he hopes that he wins, of course! Meanwhile they go on to attack Bernstein, mischaracterize his writing, completely dismiss his historical analysis, mock him with memes as a conspiracy theorist,
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Yes, he appears to be unreasonably dismissive of the blindly obvious history and the current situation. As an aside, this tracks with his choice of employers - at least one of which was a known and documented NSA collaborator (as well as a
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Dismissing this lawsuit as a conspiracy theory is embarrassing for both of them. There is ample evidence to document malfeasance by the involved parties, and it’s reasonable to ask NIST to follow public law.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
You’re making a lot of assumptions and guesses to imply they helped overall when we know they weakened DES by reducing the key size such that it was practically breakable as a hobby project. At the time of DES creation, Hellman remarked tha
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
> there was a substantial effort to weaken cryptography, decades before 9/11. Yes, agreed. Everyone should dig up their favorite programs and discuss them openly.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Regarding Simon and Speck: one simple answer is that the complicated attacks may exist and simple attacks certainly exist for smaller block and smaller key sizes. However, it’s really not necessary to have a backdoor in ARX designs directly
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
NSA doesn’t want NOBUS, they’re not a person. NSA leadership has policies to propose and promote the NOBUS dream. Even with Dual_EC_DRBG, the claims of NOBUS were incredibly arrogant. Just ask Juniper and OPM how that NOBUS business worked
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Yes, Duncan Campbell’s report is legendary ( https://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/surveillance/echelon/IC2... ). This is the same guy who revealed the existence of GCHQ, and was arrested for this gift to the p
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
That’s a thoughtful and hard won insight, thank you.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Please don’t do the JTRIG thing. Dan is a national treasure and we would be lucky to have more people like him fighting for all of us. Between the two, material evidence shows that NIST is the deep-cover agent sabotaging our cryptography.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
It follows: entire industries were required to deploy DES and the goal was to create one thing that was “strong enough” to narrow the field. Read the blog post carefully about the role of NBS, IBM, and NSA in the development of DES. It’s ha
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Agreed. It’s even worse: they also have the capability with the “mail covers” program to divert and tamper with mail. This happens to Americans on U.S. soil and I’m not just talking about suspects of terrorism.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Yes, I think so. His former PhD students were among the winners in round three and he has other work that has also made it to round four. I believe he would have sued if he won every single area in every round. This is the Bernstein way. Th
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
They’re not in question for many people carefully tracking this process. He filed his FOIA before the round three results were announced. The lawsuit is because they refused to answer his reasonable and important FOIA in a timely manner. Th
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
You appear to be throwing shade on his contributions. Do I misunderstand you? A stalemate, if you already want to diminish his efforts, isn’t a loss by definition - the classic example is in chess. He brought the government to heel even aft
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
They could and should leak more documents if they have evidence of malfeasance. There are both legal safe avenues via the IG process and legally risky many journalists who are willing to work for major change. Sadly legal doesn’t mean safe
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
This. One wonders if NIST can be fixed or if it should simply be abolished with all archives opened in the interest of restoring faith in the government . The damage done by NSA and NIST is much larger than either of those organizations.

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