Post #1249828
2026-04-12 18:54 UTC
@rsalz You aren't challenging the authenticity of https://www.eff.org/files/2014/04/09/20130905-guard-sigint_enabling.pdf on NSA's massive budget to "covertly influence and/or overtly leverage" cryptography including "standards and specification for commercial public key technologies" to make all of this "exploitable". But, when there's an effort to protect IETF against such sabotage, you claim that "this thread is crazy conspiracy thinking". I ask you to say what exactly you're claiming is a conspiracy theory, and you seem unable to answer.
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@djb@mastodon.cr.yp.to 2026-04-12 18:59
@rsalz Your response to the NSA budget document was "that does not mean that the NSA is corrupting the IETF". This _sounds_ to me like you're saying: well, yeah, NSA has a huge budget to attack standards and specs, but imagining that they're specifically attacking IETF is "crazy conspiracy thinking". I tried asking whether this is what you meant; you said no. Um, okay, then what exactly _are_ you claiming is "crazy conspiracy thinking"? (Edit: corrected quote "theory" -> "thinking".)