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This is one reason why political crimes are treated with different considerations under international treaties and in the day to day norms of states. The right to asylum, for examp…

That’s a great project, thank you for the link. Take my upvote stranger.

Okay, I’m happy to disengage as well. Thank you for your time and also for your insight.

You could also take the word of a person from deep inside the Obama administration: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/ben-rhodes-book-proves-obam...

> … I didn't acknowledge the majesty of the argument I had been confronted with. Gee, thanks, I think. Sorry to say we don’t agree on your summary of my comment. > Filippo Valsorda…

You said this up thread and I find it incorrect: > If you RTFA you'd know it pertains to bribery, not coercion By quoting the article it seems the text directly contradicts your su…

> I didn't even notice a "punching down about mental health" thing. You wrote a long comment, I skimmed it. That tracks, okay. It’s the weekend and I’m a nobody on the internet. Th…

What do I mean? Iran-Contra, Watergate, or a 9/11 report style report, like levels of investigation. Given how widely read the BULLRUN stories were, it’s not credible to suggest th…

To quote the article: At the risk of belaboring the obvious: An attacker won't have to say "Oops, researcher X is working in public and has just found an attack; can we suppress th…

One trivial example implied by the blog post: Such corruption could be involved in the non-transparent decision making process at NIST. Regarding Dual_EC: we still lack a lot of in…

It can be everybody involved. It should include NIST based on the history alone. Some of the commentary on this topic is by people who also denied DUAL_EC until (correctly) concedi…

Your augment that the selection doesn’t pick his designs doesn’t square with SPHINCS+ winning, and with others remaining in the running. His former PhD student won with Kyber. Bern…

I am definitely not in that place. We clearly disagree on a few points. The issues raised in the blog post aren’t just about NIST mishandling the FOIA. By reducing it to the lawsui…

One says he’s doing it wrong. The other says he hopes that he wins, of course! Meanwhile they go on to attack Bernstein, mischaracterize his writing, completely dismiss his histori…

Yes, he appears to be unreasonably dismissive of the blindly obvious history and the current situation. As an aside, this tracks with his choice of employers - at least one of whic…

Dismissing this lawsuit as a conspiracy theory is embarrassing for both of them. There is ample evidence to document malfeasance by the involved parties, and it’s reasonable to ask…

You’re making a lot of assumptions and guesses to imply they helped overall when we know they weakened DES by reducing the key size such that it was practically breakable as a hobb…

> there was a substantial effort to weaken cryptography, decades before 9/11. Yes, agreed. Everyone should dig up their favorite programs and discuss them openly.

Regarding Simon and Speck: one simple answer is that the complicated attacks may exist and simple attacks certainly exist for smaller block and smaller key sizes. However, it’s rea…

NSA doesn’t want NOBUS, they’re not a person. NSA leadership has policies to propose and promote the NOBUS dream. Even with Dual_EC_DRBG, the claims of NOBUS were incredibly arroga…

Yes, Duncan Campbell’s report is legendary ( https://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/surveillance/echelon/IC2... ). This is the same guy who revealed the existence of GCHQ, and was arr…

That’s a thoughtful and hard won insight, thank you.

Please don’t do the JTRIG thing. Dan is a national treasure and we would be lucky to have more people like him fighting for all of us. Between the two, material evidence shows that…

It follows: entire industries were required to deploy DES and the goal was to create one thing that was “strong enough” to narrow the field. Read the blog post carefully about the …