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Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks?

Posted by timothy on from the go-ask-theo-de-raadt dept.

New submitter deepdive writes "I have a basic question: What is the privacy/security health of the Linux kernel (and indeed other FOSS OSes) given all the recent stories about the NSA going in and deliberately subverting various parts of the privacy/security sub-systems? Basically, can one still sleep soundly thinking that the most recent latest/greatest Ubuntu/OpenSUSE/what-have-you distro she/he downloaded is still pretty safe?"

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  1. Re:AES by TuringCheck · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pick a government. If you trust the Russians use GOST. If you trust the Japanese use CAMILLA.

    Then use all three of them in sequence and hope it would be quite difficult to have them all cooperate to break your encryption.