Is there any reason that might stop Debian from including the NSA encryption algorithm called, Speck, from the Debian kernel?
It was rejected by ISO but then Google said they would use it for Android and then it was added into Linux 4.17.
soaringowl2145 wrote:Is there any reason that might stop Debian from including the NSA encryption algorithm called, Speck, from the Debian kernel?
HuangLao wrote:of course Debian would not mind...they love weak encryption and work closely with the NSA.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/ ... ber_b.html
https://it.slashdot.org/story/08/05/13/ ... -guessable
HuangLao wrote:of course Debian would not mind...they love weak encryption and work closely with the NSA.
Wheelerof4te wrote:HuangLao wrote:of course Debian would not mind...they love weak encryption and work closely with the NSA.
Debian has no ties to any government or corporation. It is a community OS, built by community for the community.
Speck should be removed in the next versions of Linux kernel, so Debian 10 will probably not contain it.
bw123 wrote:Without that money, we would probably still be using tubes instead of transistors.
bw123 wrote:The whole reason we have the internet and modern computers is because of government/corporation funding. Without that money, we would probably still be using tubes instead of transistors.
None1975 wrote:bw123 wrote:The whole reason we have the internet and modern computers is because of government/corporation funding. Without that money, we would probably still be using tubes instead of transistors.
Another myth created by capitalism is repeatedly repeated by some, not very mindful people.
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At its peak, Bell Laboratories was the premier facility of its type, developing a wide range of revolutionary technologies, including radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, information theory, the operating system Unix, the programming languages C and C++. Eight Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work completed at Bell Laboratories.[14]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs ... velopments
debiman wrote:pipe down, everybody:
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kern ... 05238.html
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