Re: [cryptography] NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years

2014-04-11 Thread David I. Emery
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 04:36:13PM -0700, Arshad Noor wrote: > Isn't that a naive assumption? Every US-based company that has anything > to do with crypto has to send in their source-code to a special address > before you can be granted a License Exception (US BIS rules) to export > to foreign cus

Re: [cryptography] NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years

2014-04-11 Thread Arshad Noor
On 04/11/2014 03:51 PM, ianG wrote: On 11/04/2014 17:50 pm, Jeffrey Walton wrote: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/nsa-said-to-have-used-heartbleed-bug-exposing-consumers.html The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send s

Re: [cryptography] NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years

2014-04-11 Thread ianG
On 11/04/2014 17:50 pm, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/nsa-said-to-have-used-heartbleed-bug-exposing-consumers.html > > The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a > flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now > dub

Re: [cryptography] NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years

2014-04-11 Thread shawn wilson
So I trust EFF's analysis more here. However this is newer than the latest article I've seen from EFF. So, where's Bloomberg's technical analysis on the subject? On Apr 11, 2014 5:50 PM, "Jeffrey Walton" wrote: > > http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/nsa-said-to-have-used-heartbleed-bug-expo

[cryptography] NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years

2014-04-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/nsa-said-to-have-used-heartbleed-bug-exposing-consumers.html The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather

Re: [cryptography] Wild at Heart: Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013?

2014-04-11 Thread dan
Jeffrey Walton shares: | https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/wild-heart-were-intelligence-agencies-using-heartbleed-november-2013 | | ... | The second log seems much more troubling. We have spoken to Ars | Technica's second source, Terrence Koeman, who reports finding some | inbound pack