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A government actor has a backdoor in a major encryption standard
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There are no deliberate backdoors in the major encryption standards
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April 21, 2014 The Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm was retired by NIST after researchers discovered a major weakness in a parameter set by the NSA | Evaluate | Very Consistent | Inconsistent |
May 6, 2013 New Yorker article summarising the aspects of the Snowden leaks pertaining to N.S.A and internet encryption. | Evaluate | Consistent | Inconsistent |
The seeds used to generate the parameters for the popular Diffie-Helman and DSA algorithms have never been published | Evaluate | Consistent | Neutral |
Documents from the Snowden leak indicate the US government is able to decrypt large amounts of VPN traffic | Evaluate | Consistent | Neutral |
Traffic encrypted with backdoored 1024-bit Diffie-Helman primes could feasibly be decrypted by an actor with only hundreds of millions of dollars in special hardware | Evaluate | Neutral | Neutral |