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Cryptographers have long suspected that the agency (NSA)
planted vulnerabilities in a standard adopted in 2006 by the
National Institute of Standards and Technology and later by
the International Organization for Standardization, which has
163 countries as members. </p>
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Classified N.S.A. memos appear to confirm that the fatal
weakness, discovered by two Microsoft cryptographers in 2007,
was engineered by the agency. The N.S.A. wrote the standard
and aggressively pushed it on the international group,
privately calling the effort “a challenge in finesse.” </p>
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“Eventually, N.S.A. became the sole editor,” the memo says.<br>
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<p itemprop="articleBody"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&</a><br>
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<p itemprop="articleBody">This is the government to which we have
entrusted the oversight of some essential infrastructural features
of the Internet.<br>
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<p itemprop="articleBody">Continuing on the subject of 'time to get
real....'.<br>
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<p itemprop="articleBody">parminder <br>
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