Given the recent crypto discussion, mass surveillance and
cyber jokes in general, I uploaded a new project to my github.
It was about time.
I wonder whether our gov is equally toast/bad in other fields,
or if I just get pointed to it because I have some background
in this field and am blind to all the other failures where
I am missing the knowledge. (SIGILL//NOPORN)
Update:
The first review round is over and it seems like opmsg
concept found some friends. I got some recommendations
which were incorporated in the git. Thats new:
- fixing insufficient hashing of persona key to
detect tampering of RSA keys during transit/import
(RSA's e value was simply not part of the hash and it now is)
- removing OFB cipher modes in favor of CTR and GCM modes (AES)
- adding option to allow linking of personas (see README)
- adding cygwin support
It is incredibly hard to review your own code; so thanks to
myself. While I buy the OFB arguments, I am not sure if its
a benefit to add ECC support for personas. ECC is mostly based
on curves with parameters chosen by NIST. The same NIST that is
suspected of putting backdoors in crypto standards
(slides), even more in standards that use ECC to generate
randomness! Knowing this, why should I trust any parameters
chosen by them? You can argue that suite-B, the NSA approved
standards for protecting US gov infra, is unlikely to contain
backdoors for themself and that this would be a tough bluff
to do so just to read Putin's email. But given the additional
implementation cost (maybe I should crowdfund it?) for
little benefit or even "badfit" this seems not worth the effort.
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