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Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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.