[Linux-aus] Fwd: [SecureTheInternet] Ghostbusting: detecting GCHQ's proposed "ghost" encryption backdoor

[Kathy Reid]

May be of interest to this list



-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	[SecureTheInternet] Ghostbusting: detecting GCHQ's proposed 
"ghost" encryption backdoor
Date: 	Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:39:03 -0500
From: 	Nate Cardozo <nate at eff.org>
To: 	securetheinternet at lists.accessnow.org



Hi all and apologies for the cross-post,

My colleague and EFF's senior staff technologist Seth Schoen and I have 
a new piece out on GCHQ's encryption backdoor proposal, referred to as 
the "ghost."

https://www.lawfareblog.com/detecting-ghosts-reverse-engineering-who-ya-gonna-call 


SPOILER: the ghost is detectable in operation.

Best,

-- 
Nate Cardozo | Senior Information Security Counsel
Electronic Frontier Foundation | https://eff.org
nate at eff.org | +1 415.436.9333 x146

_______________________________________________
SecureTheInternet mailing list
SecureTheInternet at lists.accessnow.org
https://lists.accessnow.org/listinfo/securetheinternet

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/attachments/20190124/0912b735/attachment.html>