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“NIST has produced zero records in response to this FOIA request.”

Daniel J. Bernsteinblog.cr.yp.to ↗

NSA convinced IBM to cap DES at 56 bits so it could break it. It pushed Dual EC into a NIST standard too. Now NIST is picking the post-quantum algorithms, and it ignores FOIA deadlines about who influenced the process. An agency with nothing to hide hands over the records.