| Feb. 19, 2017 |
volknet
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Changed Evidence Event Date to May 6, 2013
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| Feb. 19, 2017 |
volknet
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Changed Removed to False
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| Feb. 19, 2017 |
volknet
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Changed Evidence Description to New Yorker article summarising the aspects of the Snowden leaks pertaining to N.S.A and internet encryption.
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Evidence Event Date to None
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Evidence Description to 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
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Removed to False
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Evidence Event Date to None
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Evidence Description to Documents from the Snowden leak indicate the US government is able to decrypt large amounts of VPN traffic
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Removed to False
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Hypothesis to A government actor has a backdoor in a major encryption standard
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Evidence Event Date to April 21, 2014
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Evidence Description to The Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm was retired by NIST after researchers discovered a major weakness in a parameter set by the NSA
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Removed to False
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Evidence Event Date to None
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Evidence Description to The seeds used to generate the parameters for the popular Diffie-Helman and DSA algorithms have never been published
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Removed to False
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Removed to False
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Hypothesis to The US government has included a backdoor in a major encryption standard
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Removed to False
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Hypothesis to There are no deliberate backdoors in the major encryption standards
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Board Description to Some in government have called for backdoors in encryption standards. However, some signs point to there already being backdoors in the standards.
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Board Title to Are there backdoors in the major encryption standards?
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| Oct. 12, 2016 |
probono
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Changed Removed to False
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