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Re: NSA payed RSA to install faulty backdoor encryption
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empoweoqwj
on 25/12/2013, 07:56:02 UTC
The web site is back up, fascinating article. Despicable conduct by the "folks" at the NSA and I'm glad their scam has been exposed thanks to the genius and heroism of Edward Snowden.

ya, It's really incredible that they are running this enormous scam right under the public's noses.  I had even stated on here a number of months ago that our crypto standards are sabotaged by the NSA, the general response from the people on here was that this was a nonsense 'conspiracy theory'.

The real story is starting to come to light, that the field of cryptography is something like a scientific con game.

But what to do?

Having studied computer science I can tell you that cryptography is not a con. Strong encryption is entirely possible; just need to be wary of backdoors.

As to what you can do: Hire a trusted programmer to write your own cryptography application.

Any idea how much something like TrueCrypt would cost to write from scratch? Wink