Quantum computers may soon be able to crack encryption methods in use today, so plans are already under way to replace them with new, secure algorithms. Now it seems the US National Security Agency may be undermining that process
  • Socsa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    So there was an extremely interesting CVE recently about TLS trust issues on Qualcomm modem firmware.

    Astute observers have been asking why modem firmware is implementing TLS exchanges in the first place, leading many to speculate that the NSA was using TLS to authenticate their backdoor, and the keys got leaked.