Huawei cryptographic keys embedded in Cisco’s firmware
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Huawei cryptographic keys embedded in Cisco’s firmware
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Re: Huawei cryptographic keys embedded in Cisco’s firmware
#2* embedded in an OSS package used by Cisco's firmware
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#3So those were just files hanging around in the image, not used by anything.
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#4Tired: Cisco routers have U.S. backdoors!
Fired: Huawei routers have Chinese backdoors!
Inspired: Cisco routers have Huawei backdoors!
Reality is often stranger than fiction...
Re: Huawei cryptographic keys embedded in Cisco’s firmware
#5If a Cisco crypto key was found in a Huawei switch, the media response would be very different.
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#6If a Cisco crypto key was found in a Huawei switch, the media response would be very different.
As bad as American government and security services are, they are not as bad as their Chinese counterparts.
Re: Huawei cryptographic keys embedded in Cisco’s firmware
#7So those were just files hanging around in the image, not used by anything.
yeah, super exciting.
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#8>"The firmware contained a few certificates and a corresponding private key."
A cunning plot by Huawei to distribute private keys in Cisco firmware?
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#9If a Cisco crypto key was found in a Huawei switch, the media response would be very different.
What "media response" are you seeing, and where? From the article:
> Given the ongoing political controversy around Huawei, we did not want to speculate any further [..] According to Cisco, no attack vectors have been identified
What's wrong with that, and how would it be "different" if it was the other way around?
Re: Huawei cryptographic keys embedded in Cisco’s firmware
#10If a Cisco crypto key was found in a Huawei switch, the media response would be very different.
What "media response" are you seeing, and where? From the article: > Given the ongoing political controversy around Huawei, we did not want to speculate any further [..] According to Cisco, no attack vectors have been identified What's wrong with that, and how would it be "different" if it was the other way around?
I'm pretty sure the other way around it would be a foregone conclusion that Huawei stole IP from Cisco.