[governance] NSA sabotage of Internet security standards

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Does there exist any note from them that they ask for feedback only from US 
citizens?

I have seen more than one suggestion here on this very forum that we (for a 
certain self defined value of we) send feedback to the USG on one thing or 
the other.

--srs (htc one x)



On 16 September 2013 4:33:37 PM Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
>
> > Participate.
> > 
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/government-announces-steps-to-restore-confidence-on-encryption-standards/?_r=0
>
> That is a process of the US “*National* Institute of Standards and
> Technology” (my emphasis).
>
> I would suggest that before it becomes appropriate to call
> international civil society to participate in a review process for
> crypto specs, a review process needs to be created that is credibly
> committed to an international public interest objective!
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
>
> > On 15-Sep-2013, at 10:56, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> > > 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) describes his interactions with the NSA and several
> > > obvious NSA stooges 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, 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 (in an international standards committee!)." (emphasis
> > > added)
> > > > http://boingboing.net/2013/09/08/firsthand-account-of-nsa-sabot.html
> > > > What does it say for the US staying as a neutral, global interest
> > > protecting, venue for global governance of the Internet!
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