ISO rejects the NSA's IoT crypto standard, believing it to be backdoored

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ISO rejects the NSA's IoT crypto standard, believing it to be backdoored

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For three years, International Standards Organization has been wrangling over which cryptographic algorithms will be incorporated into a standard for interoperability in "Internet of Things" gadgets; at issue has been the NSA's insistence that "Simon" and "Speck" would be the standard block cipher algorithms in these devices...

...Now, the NSA has been defeated at ISO, with its chosen ciphers firmly rejected by the committee members, who were pretty frank about their reason for rejecting Simon and Speck: they don't trust the NSA.

https://boingboing.net/2018/04/24/fool-me-once.html
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