Another Story of Bad 1970s Encryption

2020-04-21 11:22

The Dutch intelligence service has been able to read encrypted communications from dozens of countries since the late 1970s thanks to a microchip, according to research by de Volkskrant on Thursday.

Philips, together with Siemens, built an encryption machine in the late 1970s.

Philips helped the ministry and the intelligence service.

These countries could then be overheard by the Dutch intelligence services for years.

The 1970s was a decade of really bad commercial cryptography.

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