NIST to Review Crypto Guidance Methods

“The NSA has always been intimately involved in U.S. cryptography standards – it is, after all, expert in making and breaking secret codes,” Schneier says. “So the agency’s participation in the NIST standard is not sinister in itself. It’s only when you look under the hood at the NSA’s contribution that questions arise.”

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