Re: Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

[Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/09/2014 05:28 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 1/9/2014 2:20 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>> It might be easier to compromise security of commercial products as source
>> code is not available.
> they seem to have succeeded in compromising STANDARDS and ALGORITHMS, to
> heck with implementations.

Only algorithm they compromised was an RNG that got pretty strong thumbs 
down from the real cryptographers.  They have not compromised any IETF 
standard; maybe kept quite about a problem, but have not put holes in 
any.  Most of our problems with TLS is implementations and backwards 
compatiblity options.


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