Backward compatibility bites again (like RC4 in WPA2)

[rysiek]

Dnia wtorek, 3 marca 2015 13:48:28 coderman pisze:
> On 2/4/15, coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ...
> > 2015, RC4 still in WPA2, WPA2 still in everything, ... [0].
> 
> not RC4 specifically, but EXP-RC4-MD5 is the avenue:
> 
> "The export-grade RSA ciphers are the remains of a 1980s-vintage
> effort to weaken cryptography so that intelligence agencies would be
> able to monitor. This was done badly. So badly, that while the
> policies were ultimately scrapped, they’re still hurting us today."
>  -
> http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/03/attack-of-week-freak-or-fac
> toring-nsa.html
> 
> RC4, still hurting us today, too!

NSA -- making the world a less safe place, one cipher at a time!

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Pozdrawiam,
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak

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