Tag: elliptic curve
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Backdoored standards show we desperately need more cryptographers
Too few currently possess the skills to verify standards. Recent revelations of the NSA’s crypto-breaking capabilities have led to calls for better cryptography. But we need more cryptographers too. In the 2010 edition of their classic book Cryptography Engineering , Bruce Schneier, Niels Ferguson and Tadayoshi Kohno wrote on the SHA family of hash functions:…