NSA and Dual EC_DRBG: Déjà Vu All Over Again?
@article{Landau2015NSAAD, title={NSA and Dual EC_DRBG: D{\'e}j{\`a} Vu All Over Again?}, author={S. Landau}, journal={The Mathematical Intelligencer}, year={2015}, volume={37}, pages={72-83} }
F or months now, there has been vigorous debate about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance. Edward Snowden’s dramatic disclosures of classified documents touched it off, but some of the issues have been with us for years. What level of domestic and international surveillance should the U.S. government be conducting? All the reports and Congressional hearings have left things largely unsettled. One of the most striking of the Snowden revelations was that the NSA had subverted the… CONTINUE READING
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