NSA and IETF, part 8
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WatchDog
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Hacker NewsNSA and IETF, part 8blog.cr.yp.toSecret NSA documents showed that NSA pushed DES in the 1970s to
"drive out competitors"
while knowing that DES was
"weak enough"
to break;
meanwhile NSA
publicly claimed that it would use DES.
NSA used
export-law exceptions
in the 1990s
to entrench RC4 an
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