Linux Security News - NSA Encryption Algorithms added to Kernel 4.17
NSA developed algorithms Simon and Speck have been rejected by the ISO, but pushed into the Linux Kernel at the request of Google under the guise of providing encryption for low powered Android devices.
Sources:
https://itsfoss.com/nsas-encryption-algorithm-in-linux-kernel-is-creating-unease-in-the-community/
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-crypto/msg33291.html
https://rainrfid.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Wingers-RAINRFID.pdf
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/config?h=packages/linux#n9340
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_module#Blacklisting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(cipher)
https://github.com/inmcm/Simon_Speck_Ciphers/blob/master/C/simon.c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck_(cipher)
https://github.com/inmcm/Simon_Speck_Ciphers/blob/master/C/speck.c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue
https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/560.pdf
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