Security News > 2016 > November > Whistleblower Investigative Report on NSA Suite B Cryptography (Schneier on Security)
2016-11-09 18:00
The NSA has been abandoning secret and proprietary cryptographic algorithms in favor of commercial public algorithms, generally known as "Suite B." In 2010, an NSA employee filed some sort of whistleblower complaint, alleging that this move is both insecure and wasteful. The US DoD Inspector General investigated and wrote a report in 2011. The report -- slightly redacted and declassified...
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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/11/whistleblower_i.html
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