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Ask Slashdot: Can We Still Trust FIPS?

Posted by timothy on from the just-slide-it-under-my-door dept.

First time accepted submitter someSnarkyBastard writes "It has already been widely reported that the NSA has subverted several major encryption standards but I have not seen any mention of how this affects the FIPS 140-2 standard. Can we still trust these cyphers? They have been cleared for use by the US Government for Top-Secret clearance documents; surely the government wouldn't backdoor itself right?...Right?"

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  1. TS is not SCI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Up to Top Secret" does not include Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). The ciphers under discussion, backdoored or not, are not suitable for use on SCI.