Open Letter From UK Security Researchers

Bristol Cryptography Blog: „Open Letter From UK Security Researchers“

However, the documents released show that NSA and GCHQ worked to weaken international cryptographic standards, and to place „backdoors“ into security products; such backdoors could of course be potentially exploited by others than the original creators. One of the prime missions of the security services is to protect citizens and corporations from Cyber Attack. By weakening cryptographic standards, in as yet undisclosed ways, and by inserting weaknesses into products which we all rely on to secure critical infrastructure, we believe that the agencies have been acting against the interests of the public that they are meant to serve. (…) We call on the relevant parties to reveal what systems have been weakened so that they can be repaired, and to create a proper system of oversight with well-defined public rules that clearly forbid weakening the security of civilian systems and infrastructures.“

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September 17, 2013 | abgelegt unter Internet and Computer, Politics, Privacy 

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