A guy told me once NSA built backdoors in mathematical equestions themselves. is it true or just schio talk? he was homeless
>backdoors in mathematical equationsObviously schizo talk>encouraging or demanding use of flawed encryption algorithmsTruth https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-nsa-attempting-to-insert-backdoors-into-encrypted-data
>>16807859>know there is a weakness in the algorithm, proven mathematically>dont publish it
>>16807853It truehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
>>16807853An entire movie was made with that premise.
>>16807901How can the government have so much illegal surveillance and yet be so fucking retarded?
>>1680792090% of humans are complete egoistical retards. NSA has some iq requirments so I guess for them it's 50% retards. Any company or organization works the same way. There are like few smart guys who figure out stuff and make money and thousands mouthbreathers who just want to keep their nice job. So on literally every level of production chain you have people lying and covering their asses. From regular workers to CEOs, everyone answers before someone. At least this shit is much less noticable in democracies and capitalism but in countries like russia you end up with corruption and complete delusions. that's why the ukraine invasion failed, they thought they could pull it off in 3 days because people on every position from ministry of defense down to a regular soldier was lying about something. and this happens in every industry/organization since humans learned to talk
>>16807920How can someone with the worlds knowlage at his fingertipps still be a idiot?
>>16807944what fingertip? almost all of academia today is corrupt trash heaps or hidden behind paywalls
>>16807968Don't know, im in cs, never encounterd what you discribe
>>16807972oh you are in a meme programme nevermindcarry on tool
>>16807980OPs question is a cs question, i shut up in physic threats, but my core subject is cyptography so i find it fair for me to post here. Also it's us, cs, that pushes science forwart like nobody else. And if you find a issue in our work you can just open a pull request.We are not corrupt as you say, we don't hide behind academic towers but happly share our ideas. And we all make a shittown of money form our comfy homeoffice.So hate all you want, but cs is the giant on whose sholders all mordern science sitts
>>16807853>he was homelesshobos are always right anonalwaysthey went crazy cause they knew too much
>>16807990kek
>>16807859>its not true>its truegot it glow nigger
>>16808008NTA but I suspect what he means isthere are two parts in cryptographyone is the math which the pure math-fags doand the second is the implementation of the math, which CS-fags dothey are both equally important and hard, a theoretically great math solution could be useless practically due to CS reasonsAnyway what he claims is the math can't be backdoored, but the implementation can.I don't know enough to say if he is right though.
>>16808052This is not true.Dual EC had an intentional nsa backdoor in the "pure math", not in a specific implementation
>>16807990b a s t e
>>16807933A general rule is that 50% of an organization's value is produced by a group the size of the square root of the number of employees. For the CIA, that's SQRT(22000) or about 148 people. The rest collectively struggle to provide the other 50% of value, with quite a few employees providing negative value.When important information flows into the CIA, what are the odds it ends up with one of those 148 people? Hopefully not just 148/22000 but since the CIA is highly compartmentalized, maybe it is that simple.
>>16808008>I tell you that the NSA was flogging backdoored encryption algorithms and provide a source for further reading>you somehow construe this as a denialYou definitely ate lead paint as a child>>16808052>>16808067What I (first poster) meant is that the NSA wanted people to use the Dual EC PRNG with the specific constant parameters that they provided so that they could break randomness and use a result to predict the next output. However this doesn't mean that all of mathematics is compromised by the NSA like OP's schizo friend was saying.
There's so many poorly informed or thought out takes in this board I don't even feel like replying to anyone anymore.Are you faggots even trying?
>>16808158>What I (first poster) meant is that the NSA wanted people to use the Dual EC PRNG with the specific constant parameters that they provideWell yes but the algo is broken by design to allow these kind of parameters.
>>16808158Not all of math is compromised by NSA, its not 1984 and 2+2=5,but they want to backdoor https sooo bad and who knows what tricks they are up to right now. They might be able to crack the encryption of the POST request sending this very post. Yet, of cause they have a backdoor in my android and can screenshot it. Well they might as well have a keylogger in the fucking samsung virtual keyboard i'm typing this on. Or they have a backdoor for 4chan, for Facebook and x they have an api.The tinfoils are iright here, nsa wants to listen in to any communication on the Planet, if that means to compromice some mathimatical Organisations thats no hasel. They have good mathematicans and limetless money
>>16808171Can you point out some posts? It's very important that we keep the quality of 4chan posts at a high standart
>>16808215All hardware is backdooredAll major corps are backdoored4chan is not just backdoored it's literally run by the fedsLinux is backdooredEven if https is not backdoored, it doesn't really matter
>>16807990too obvious
>>16807853Just take for granted that computer security means security from common criminals, people above some social status can access all your files or also kidnap you and get you to display everything. Elites (above some level, think top 200 families) are immune from laws.
>>16808096>A general rule is that 50% of an organization's value is produced by a group the size of the square root of the number of employees.Not in sweatshops, mines or assorted production lines. There its pretty lineal, a worker produces.
>>16807853they have a backdoor to the entire language.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qda-xzg-Flo
"backdoor into the equations themselves" sounds like schizo babble.
>>16807853What exactly were you doing to that homeless schizo that made him so fixated on back doors?
>>16807920Incompleteness— no matter how many things they can see, there will still be an infinite amount of things they can't.
>>16807920they have smart engineers, who they work for on the other hand....
>>16808373We will keep that in mind when the CIA starts mining coal.
>>16808372>means security from common criminalsOnly for the people above the social status you were mentioning, everyone else gets their crypto keys stolen fairly easily.
>>16808372That retarded comic is positively glowingprism, edgehill, muscular, bullrun etc., all clandestine government operations designed to spy on citizens, use technological backdoors and tricks. xkcd is so fucking reddit
The fact that things like Public Key Encryption work makes me open to the possibility of structural backdoors in some algorithms that have not been disclosed.
>>16807859>>backdoors in mathematical equations>Obviously schizo talk>>built in backdoor in cryptographic algorithm>somehow not schizo because the truth is more concealed to the normie like thatThe absolute cognitive and moral state of useful idiots and/or glowies in our times.Next thing you're gonna tell us is that state surveillance is for terrorism and child molesters
>>16808444>"backdoor into the equations themselves" sounds like schizo babble.They actually did this with elliptic curves used in standard cryptographic algorithms
>>16808256>Linux is backdooredis it worse than MS?
If you were going to make a backdoor in pic related, how would you do it?
>>16808542They use those until they find something they cant crack, then they just kidnap (sorry, ARREST) the CEO of the uncooperative software company and get him to cooperate.
>>16807906Oh well, with definitive evidence like that freely available online, I feel stupid for even asking.
It's no accident Rijndael was chosen over Serpent for AES as it left the door open for possible future NSA exploits. Muh speed was given as the excuse, ignoring ever increasing computing speed. The chosen algorithm would also receive a hardware instruction set on most architectures. https://web.archive.org/web/20231124173420/https://csrc.nist.rip/encryption/aes/round2/conf3/AES3FeedbackForm-summary.pdf
>>16808171Are you?
