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<blockquote>On the Cryptography mailing list, John Gilmore
(co-founder of pioneering ISP The Little Garden and the Electronic
Frontier Foundation; early Sun employee; cypherpunk; significant
contributor to GNU/Linux and its crypto suite; and all-round
Internet superhero) <a
href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.technology.liberationtech/1185">describes
his interactions with the NSA and several obvious NSA stooges</a>
on the IPSEC standardization working groups at the Internet
Engineering Task Force. It's an anatomy of how the NSA worked to
undermine and sabotage important security standards. For example,
"NSA employees
explicitly lied to standards committees, such as that for
cellphone
encryption, <i><b>telling them that if they merely debated an
actually-secure protocol, they would be violating the export
control
laws unless they excluded all foreigners from the room</b></i>
(in an
international standards committee!)." (emphasis added)<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://boingboing.net/2013/09/08/firsthand-account-of-nsa-sabot.html">http://boingboing.net/2013/09/08/firsthand-account-of-nsa-sabot.html</a><br>
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What does it say for the US staying as a neutral, global interest
protecting, venue for global governance of the Internet!<br>
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parminder <br>
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