crypto wars 2.0

Articles

Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism, Clarke Says

David Greene

March 14, 2016

David Greene talks to former national security official Richard Clarke about the fight between Apple and the FBI.The FBI wants an iPhone that was used by one of the San Bernardino shooters unlocked.

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/14/470347719/encryption-and-privacy-are-larger-issues-than-fighting-terrorism-clarke-says

Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again?

Steven Levy

Mar 11, 2016

The iPhone Crisis reignited a conflict that should have been settled in the 90s. The loser is our national security.

https://backchannel.com/why-are-we-fighting-the-crypto-wars-again-b5310a423295

Thanks for the gigantic picture of the key in question, you utter morons.

@gsuberland

Mar 5 2016

https://twitter.com/gsuberland/status/706118825117392896

CIS Files Amici Curiae Brief in Apple Case on Behalf of iPhone Security Experts and Applied Cryptographers

Riana Pfefferkorn

March 2, 2016

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2016/03/cis-files-amici-curiae-brief-apple-case-behalf-iphone-security-experts-and-applied

The Feds Have Let the Cyber World Burn. Let’s Put the Fire Out

Dan Kaminsky

03.01.16

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/feds-let-cyber-world-burn-lets-put-fire/

NSA Chief Stakes Out Pro-Encryption Position, in Contrast to FBI

Jenna McLaughlin

Jan. 21 2016

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/21/nsa-chief-stakes-out-pro-encryption-position-in-contrast-to-fbi/

Dutch govt says no to backdoors, slides $540k into OpenSSL without breaking eye contact

Kieren McCarthy

4 Jan 2016

People need encryption to be safe and secure, says ministry

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/04/dutch_government_says_no_to_backdoors/

NSA Helped British Spies Find Security Holes In Juniper Firewalls

Ryan Gallagher, Glenn Greenwald

Dec. 23 2015

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/23/juniper-firewalls-successfully-targeted-by-nsa-and-gchq/

A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: On the Juniper backdoor

Matthew Green

December 22, 2015

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/12/on-juniper-backdoor.html

Researchers Solve Juniper Backdoor Mystery; Signs Point to NSA

Kim Zetter

12.22.15

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/researchers-solve-the-juniper-mystery-and-they-say-its-partially-the-nsas-fault/

The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work*

Phillip Rogaway

Department of Computer Science University of California, Davis, USA December 3, 2015

http://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1162.pdf

A RIDDLE WRAPPED IN AN ENIGMA

NEAL KOBLITZ AND ALFRED J. MENEZES

20 October 2015

http://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1018.pdf

Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice

David Adrian¶ Karthikeyan Bhargavan∗ Zakir Durumeric¶ Pierrick Gaudry† Matthew Green§ J. Alex Halderman¶ Nadia Heninger‡ Drew Springall¶ Emmanuel Thomé† Luke Valenta‡ Benjamin VanderSloot¶ Eric Wustrow¶ Santiago Zanella-Béguelin∥ Paul Zimmermann†

∗ INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt † INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, CNRS, and Université de Lorraine ∥ Microsoft Research ‡ University of Pennsylvania § Johns Hopkins ¶ University of Michigan CCS’15, October 12–16, 2015, Denver, Colorado, USA. ACM 978-1-4503-3832-5/15/10. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2810103.2813707.

https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy-ccs15.pdf

How is NSA breaking so much crypto?

Alex Halderman and Nadia Heninger

October 14, 2015

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/haldermanheninger/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/

The U.S. Can’t Keep Its Own Data Safe. How Dare It Demand a Back Door to Yours.

David Auerbach

Sept. 16 2015

Why the U.S. Doesn’t Deserve a Back Door to Your Data Because it can barely keep its own data safe.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/09/fbi_cia_nsa_want_backdoor_access_to_data_yet_they_can_t_keep_their_own_data.html

Lockpickers 3-D Print TSA Master Luggage Keys From Leaked Photos

Andy Greenberg

09.09.15

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/lockpickers-3-d-print-tsa-luggage-keys-leaked-photos/

Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications

Harold Abelson, Ross Anderson, Steven M. Bellovin, Josh Benaloh, Matt Blaze, Whitfield Diffie, John Gilmore, Matthew Green, Susan Landau, Peter G. Neumann, Ronald L. Rivest, Jeffrey I. Schiller, Bruce Schneier, Michael Specter, Daniel J. Weitzner

July 6, 2015

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/97690/MIT-CSAIL-TR-2015-026.

U.N. Special Rapporteur: Governments Must Not “Backdoor” Encryption for Spying

Ryan Gallagher

May 28 2015

https://theintercept.com/2015/05/28/united-nations-encryption-anonymity-surveillance/

The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle

Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibson, Claudio Guarnieri, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Leif Ryge, Hilmar Schmundt and Michael Sontheimer

January 17, 2015

Part 2: How the NSA Reads Over Shoulders of Other Spies

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/new-snowden-docs-indicate-scope-of-nsa-preparations-for-cyber-battle-a-1013409.html

Shopping for Spy Gear: Catalog Advertises NSA Toolbox

Jacob Appelbaum, Judith Horchert and Christian Stöcker

December 29, 2013

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-940994.html

The NSA and cryptography: Cracked credibility

Sep 14th 2013

To be safe, the internet needs reliable encryption. But the standards, software and hardware it uses are vulnerable

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21586296-be-safe-internet-needs-reliable-encryption-standards-software-and

N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web

NICOLE PERLROTH, JEFF LARSON and SCOTT SHANE

SEPT. 5, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html

FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites - now

Declan McCullagh

May 4, 2012

CNET learns the FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers, and that the bureau is asking Internet companies not to oppose a law making those backdoors mandatory.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57428067-83/fbi-we-need-wiretap-ready-web-sites-now/

Public-key cryptography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography