On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am even > starting to think that maybe we should start using the NSA checksum > approach. > > Incidentally, that checksum could be explained simply by padding prepping an > EC encrypted session key. PKCS#1 has similar stuff to ensure that there is > no known plaintext in there. Using the encryption algorithm instead of the > OAEP hash function makes much better sense. > Wait, am I misunderstanding, or is the NSA recommending that people "checksum" by leaving behind the key encrypted with a backdoor the NSA and the NSA only can read? Wow.
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