"The basics on backdoors in security systems" on How the NSA (may have) put a backdoor in RSA’s cryptography: A technical primer. I thought the "pool ball" analogy was very interesting....
"The backdoor allows anyone with knowledge of a secret user agent string to log in and modify settings on any router running the vulnerable software,"... "The values for the points P1 and P2 could have been chosen randomly or they could have been chosen with a deliberate relationship. If they were chosen deliberately, there is a backdoor."
Is there any way to tell if they were chosen deliberately or not, and if not is this a possibility for any of these programs out there?
Yeah but the NSA probably doesn't want back doors to exist just as much as we do, if not more so... Think of the extremely dangerous consequences for the NSA that could happen if they DID exist or if someone from inside did know a "secret user string" and used it against them... (hint, think Snowden)
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"The basics on backdoors in security systems" on How the NSA (may have) put a backdoor in RSA’s cryptography: A technical primer. I thought the "pool ball" analogy was very interesting.... "The backdoor allows anyone with knowledge of a secret user agent string to log in and modify settings on any router running the vulnerable software,"... "The values for the points P1 and P2 could have been chosen randomly or they could have been chosen with a deliberate relationship. If they were chosen deliberately, there is a backdoor." Is there any way to tell if they were chosen deliberately or not, and if not is this a possibility for any of these programs out there?
Yeah but the NSA probably doesn't want back doors to exist just as much as we do, if not more so... Think of the extremely dangerous consequences for the NSA that could happen if they DID exist or if someone from inside did know a "secret user string" and used it against them... (hint, think Snowden)