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SUMMARY:Backdoors always backfire - Tanja Lange (Eindhoven)\, to be joined
  by Daniel J. Bernstein (Chicago) for Q+A
DTSTART:20190221T170000Z
DTEND:20190221T180000Z
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CONTACT:Maurice Chiodo
DESCRIPTION:The Snowden revelations in 2013 shook up the cryptographic com
 munity when documents showed evidence of actions to subvert standards and 
 restrict "indigenous cryptography". This talk will shine a light on the hi
 story of the most famous standardized back door\, the Dual-EC pseudo-rando
 m number generator\, and how it came into being a standard. Dual-EC is als
 o a textbook example\, though not the only one\, of how back doors go bad.
   The talk will also cover some lesser known issues with standards and tha
 t it is sometimes hard to distinguish sabotage from bad\, but benign\, cry
 ptographic designs.
LOCATION:MR2\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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