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Backdoor Engineering.

The article reports on the process of creating a backdoor to gain access to protected systems. It mentions the use of cryptography to protect the system, the use of a deterministic random-bit generator to break one-way functions for public keys, and how the function choices produce the backdoor.

Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 61; no. 11; pp. 147 - 148
Main Author: Kuhn, Markus G.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2018
Subjects:
Computer access control
Computer crimes
Random number generators
Public key cryptography
Algebraic attacks (Cryptography)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article reports on the process of creating a backdoor to gain access to protected systems. It mentions the use of cryptography to protect the system, the use of a deterministic random-bit generator to break one-way functions for public keys, and how the function choices produce the backdoor.