The New York Times accused the NSA of circumnavigating the NIST-approved encryption algorithms. NIST led development of many of the algorithms used to encrypt data on the Internet. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has vigorously denied that the NSA tampered with NIST’s process of vetting and choosing encryption algorithms. “NIST would not deliberately weaken a cryptographic standard,” NIST said in a statement Tuesday. In addition to issuing the statement, NIST has reopened public comments for a number of proposed encryption related standards.”]
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