From: Vincenzo lozzo
Subject: practical kleptograp y
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 1:17:59 PM
Cc: "Jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com>, Joshua Cooper Ramo
To: Joichi Ito
The speaker is somewhat biased (you can guess in which direction), but this explains how some of the
elliptic curves suggested by NIST were allegedly backdoored.
It's pretty high level, so don't need a lot of crypto understanding for it:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot14/technical-sessions/presentation/practical-kleptography
Besides the technical/crypto part it's a very good way to understand how certain processes within the US
govt work
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