NSA's influence on cryptographic standards (slides from a 2022 talk by D. J. Bernstein)

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml · 2 years

via https://cr.yp.to/talks.html#2022.11.10

davel@lemmy.ml · 2 years

I had no idea djb had gone on to crypto. I only know him from his earlier qmail & djbdns work. I made a bunch of money off of qmail decades ago. Thanks, djb.

solrize@lemmy.world · 2 years

His web site is https://cr.yp.to which is a cool name ;).

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml · 2 years

Yeah, I also used to run qmail and first knew of djb as the apparently only person capable of implementing network protocols in C without any exploitable bugs :)

But, he was actually doing historically important cryptography work even back then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States (and since has gone on to co-invent several cryptographic primitives which are now ubiquitous internet standards).