DES and the NSA?

1. 2024-08-15 at 6:19 PM UTC

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   Cowboy2013 African Astronaut
   I was reading about this and I don't really understand it but the thing Intel did with NSA oversight. What does that probably mean as far as capabilities the NSA probably has through Intel?
   
   I still don't understand the implications of Intel management or whatever that thing is. I don't understand how Russia or China can use them and not have the US government launching their nukes on each other.
   
   The book I was reading is older so idk if DES has been replaced with something else.
2. 2024-08-15 at 7:31 PM UTC

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   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
   The FUYS have a backdoor into everything but obviously not China or Russia who have their own fuys
3. 2024-08-15 at 9:19 PM UTC

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   ner vegas African Astronaut
   are you talking about Dual_EC_DRBG? the general gist is that the random number generator the NSA tried to have included in the DES standard wasn't really random, it'd generate them in a predictable pattern.
   
   because of how modern cryptography works, increasing computation difficulty using random numbers and high primes, being able to predict the random numbers used significantly reduces the amount of compute power required to crack it
   
   https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_sto.html
4. 2024-08-15 at 9:20 PM UTC

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   ner vegas African Astronaut
   and IME basically just runs a coprocessor with access to the network and your system that isn't controlled by the main processor; for the most part the user has no idea what it's doing