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Die Bundeswehr zieht erneut in den ewigen Krieg: Anti-IS-Einsatz soll “weit mehr als 10 Jahre dauern”Das venetische Volk wird zur “nationalen Minderheit”

Technical developments in Cryptography: 2016 in Review

Die Review hat einiges an Interessantem zu bieten. Unter anderem das hier:

RFC 5114: Another backdoored crypto standard from NIST?

Speaking of backdoors, another potentially compromised standard was identified this year: RFC 5114. This little-known standard, written back in 2008, is somewhat mysterious all the way around. It was written by defense contractor BBN to standardize some parameters previously published by NIST. It defines eight Diffie-Hellman groups "that can be used in conjunction with IETF protocols to provide security for Internet communications" which eventually made their way into some widely-used cryptographic libraries like OpenSSL and Bouncy Castle. However, some of the groups have been identified as suspicious

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