Security News > 2020 > January > Friday Squid Blogging: The Pterosaur Ate Squid

Friedman cultivated "a special relationship" with Crypto AG founder Boris Haglin, which resulted in Crypto AG being just about the only commercial crypto equipment supplier in the world.

Crypto AG could supply the fully crypto secure algorithm electromechanics to customers, but leave off some or all of the filtering or reclocking circuits that stopped "Side channel" based key leakage to the telegraph lines and other still classified tecniques not to disimilar to the "Infinity device".

As Crypto AG's unknown owners had not told senior managment or others in Crypto AG poor Hans knew nothing.

So much beloved by Criminals and others who do not want their activities revealed like spys and intelligence agencies like the CIA. So yes Crypto AG have been dirty one way or another more or less since the begining when Boris Haglin did his deal with William F. Friedman, that he would be able to prosper unopposed in return for backdooring all their equipment for the NSA Part of this agrement was that the US would "Kill off any competition" to Crypto AG. As Crypto AG have been repeatedly been found to be "Dirty", under the old "A leopard never changes it's spots" saying I have long assumed and indicated as above that they are still dirty and won't change.

In Peter Wrights book he tells of " Operation ENGULF" which was the bugging of the "Crypto cell" of Egyptian Embassy through the "Infinity device" they had put on the phone line leading into the "Crypto cell" phone.

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