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After Action Report of the First Crypto War
- Subject: After Action Report of the First Crypto War
- From: zen at freedbms.net (Zenaan Harkness)
- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 09:52:38 +1100
- In-reply-to: <CAO7N=i02=M6Aqdq8bLpThk2-Q9brn1Phz2Wg07T5Nu8D8yM=NQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 09:27:31AM -0800, Ryan Carboni wrote:
> And then a few academics found that there is a problem with the Clipper
> chip protocol, the 16-bit hash was insecure. Apparently the NSA cannot
> write good protocols. Should've been a bigger scandal, it'd be like a
> trillion dollar project to build airplanes that cannot fly.
Well at least -that-'s never happened...