From joquendo@e-fensive.net Fri Jul 6 02:32:50 2018 From: "J. Oquendo" To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: [cryptography] Iranian Cryptography Vendor (backdoor reference) Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:32:50 +0000 Message-ID: <172289282707.3881296.15292823012131027801.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0779337406078069911==" --===============0779337406078069911== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Crypto AG has been accused of rigging its machines in collusion with intellig= ence agencies such as the German Bundesnachrichtendienst=20 (BND) and the United States National Security Agency (NSA), enabling such org= anisations to read the encrypted traffic produced by the=20 machines.[2] Suspicions of this collusion were aroused in 1986 following US p= resident Ronald Reagan's announcement on national=20 television that, through interception of diplomatic communications between Tr= ipoli and the Libyan embassy in East Berlin, he had=20 irrefutable evidence that Muammar al-Gaddafi of Libya was behind the 1986 Ber= lin discotheque bombing in which two US service=20 personnel were killed and another fifty injured. President Reagan then ordere= d the bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi in retaliation.=20 There is no conclusive evidence that there was an intercepted Libyan message.= [citation needed] Further evidence suggesting that the Crypto AG machines were compromised was = revealed after the assassination of former Iranian Prime=20 Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar in 1991. On August 7, 1991, one day before Bakhtia= r's body was discovered, the Iranian Intelligence=20 Service transmitted a coded message to Iranian embassies, inquiring "Is Bakht= iar dead?" Western governments were able to decipher=20 this transmission, causing Iranian suspicion to fall upon their Crypto AG equ= ipment.[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/nsa_backdoors_i.html --=20 =3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+= =3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+=3D+ J. Oquendo SGFA, SGFE, C|EH, CNDA, CHFI, OSCP, CPT, RWSP, GREM "Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace" - Dalai Lama 42B0 5A53 6505 6638 44BB 3943 2BF7 D83F 210A 95AF http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0x2BF7D83F210A95AF _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============0779337406078069911==--