http://simonwillison.net/2018-06-22T21:15:04+00:00Simon Willison2018-06-22T21:15:04+00:002018-06-22T21:15:04+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2018/Jun/22/lemongraph/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/lemongraph">lemongraph</a></strong></p> An open-source “log-based transactional graph engine”. Written by the NSA. In Python. It runs on top of LMDB, which is the fast memory-mapped transactional key-value store that was developed by the OpenLDAP project as a replacement for BerkeleyDB. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graph">graph</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nsa">nsa</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a></p>

2009-12-24T21:26:26+00:002009-12-24T21:26:26+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Dec/24/schneier/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/intercepting_pr.html">Intercepting Predator Video</a></strong></p> Bruce Schneier’s take on the unencrypted Predator UAV story. A fascinating discussion of key management and the non-technical side of cryptography. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bruce-schneier">bruce-schneier</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cryptography">cryptography</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/drones">drones</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/military">military</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nsa">nsa</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a></p>

2007-11-16T10:25:42+00:002007-11-16T10:25:42+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Nov/16/schneier/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_sto.html"><p>I don't understand why the NSA was so insistent about including Dual_EC_DRBG in the standard. It makes no sense as a trap door: It's public, and rather obvious. It makes no sense from an engineering perspective: It's too slow for anyone to willingly use it. And it makes no sense from a backwards-compatibility perspective: Swapping one random-number generator for another is easy.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_sto.html">Bruce Schneier</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bruce-schneier">bruce-schneier</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cryptography">cryptography</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dualecdrbg">dualecdrbg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nsa">nsa</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/randomnumbers">randomnumbers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a></p>