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Was the iOS SSL Flaw Deliberate?

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LinuxSecurity.com; By Dave Wreski 		Mail this story
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Last October, I speculated on the best ways to go about designing and implementing a software backdoor. I suggested three characteristics of a good backdoor: low chance of discovery, high deniability if discovered, and minimal conspiracy to implement.

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Bob_Robertson ·
At some point, someone's going to mention the Debian patch to OpenSSH that corrupted the random key generation.

Since it's known that the NSA has been deliberately doing exactly such things, why would anyone be surprised to find it everywhere?

The only good that is coming out of this is that people are taking basic security more seriously.

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