It’s been 20 years since Microsoft cryptographer Niels Ferguson said “Over my dead body” about a BitLocker backdoor. But the very next line of that blog post was “Well, maybe not literally—I’m not ready to be a martyr quite yet—but certainly not in any product I work on” and he doesn’t work there anymore 🤔
(Ferguson was also one of the cryptographers who pointed out the backdoor-enabling design of NIST’s Dual_EC_DRBG in 2007, six years before the Snowden disclosures confirmed that NIST did indeed backdoor it on behalf of the NSA.)
It’s been 20 years since Microsoft cryptographer Niels Ferguson said “Over my dead body” about a BitLocker backdoor. But the very next line of that blog post was “Well, maybe not literally—I’m not ready to be a martyr quite yet—but certainly not in any product I work on” and he doesn’t work there anymore 🤔
(Ferguson was also one of the cryptographers who pointed out the backdoor-enabling design of NIST’s Dual_EC_DRBG in 2007, six years before the Snowden disclosures confirmed that NIST did indeed backdoor it on behalf of the NSA.)