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Hey! I'm David, cofounder of zkSecurity and author of Real-World Cryptography.

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I'm also an advisor at Archetype. I was previously a cryptography architect of Mina at O(1) Labs, the security lead for Libra/Diem at Facebook, and a security engineer at the Cryptography Services of NCC Group. Welcome to my blog about cryptography, security, and other related topics.

“Cryptologie” is the French spelling of “cryptology.”

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    A Brief History of NSA Backdoors.

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    here’s an entertaining piece about NSA backdoors through history: http://ethanheilman.tumblr.com/post/70646748808/a-brief-history-of-nsa-backdoors

    1997 Lotus Notes: The NSA requested that Lotus weaken its cryptography so that the NSA could break documents and emails secured by Lotus notes. This Software was used by citizens, companies and governments worldwide.

    I talked about this one here.

    suggested reads:
    → One example of a crypto backdoor: NSA's backdoor in Lotus-Notes • blog
    → How to Backdoor Diffie-Hellman is on ePrint • blog
    → The NSA about academic cryptographers • blog
    ← back to all posts blog • 2015-02-04

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