NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?

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The cr.yp.to blog Table of contents (Access-I for index page) 2025.10.04: NSA and IETF: Can an attacker simply purchase standardization of weakened cryptography? #pqcrypto #hybrids #nsa #ietf #antitrust 2025.09.30: Surreptitious surveillance: On the importance of not being seen. #marketing #stealth #nsa 2025.04.23: McEliece standardization: Looking at what's happening, and analyzing rationales. #nist #iso #deployment #performance #security 2025.01.18: As expensive as a plane flight: Looking at some claims that quantum computers won't work. #quantum #energy #variables #errors #rsa #secrecy 2024.10.28: The sins of the 90s: Questioning a puzzling claim about mass surveillance. #attackers #governments #corporations #surveillance #cryptowars 2024.08.03: Clang vs. Clang: You're making Clang angry. You wouldn't like Clang when it's angry. #compilers #optimization #bugs #timing #security #codescans 2024.06.12: Bibliography keys: It's as easy as [1], [2], [3]. #bibliographies #citations #bibtex #votemanipulation #paperwriting 2024.01.02: Double encryption: Analyzing the NSA/GCHQ arguments against hybrids. #nsa #quantification #risks #complexity #costs 2023.11.25: Another way to botch the security analysis of Kyber-512: Responding to a recent blog post. #nist #uncertainty #errorbars #quantification 2023.10.23: Reducing "gate" counts for Kyber-512: Two algorithm analyses, from first principles, contradicting NIST's calculation. #xor #popcount #gates #memory #clumping 2023.10.03: The inability to count correctly: Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level. #nist #addition #multiplication #ntru #kyber #fiasco 2023.06.09: Turbo Boost: How to perpetuate security problems. #overclocking #performancehype #power #timing #hertzbleed #riskmanagement #environment 2022.08.05: NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography: Announcing my second lawsuit against the U.S. government. #nsa #nist #des #dsa #dualec #sigintenablingproject #nistpqc #foia 2022.01.29: Plagiarism as a pa...