
“The ISO has decided not to approve two NSA-designed block encryption algorithms: Speck and Simon. It’s because the NSA is not trusted to put security ahead of surveillance.”
Read more: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/09/iso_rejects_nsa.html
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