Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007)
The NYT piece today had different redactions than the Guardian, showing the NSA may have done this with commercial VPN ASICs.<p>The Times includes "Complete enabling for [XXXXXXX] encryption chips used in Virtual Private Network and Web encryption devices."
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/05/us/documents-reveal-nsa-campaign-against-encryption.html?ref=us#briefing" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/05/us/documents-r...</a><p>(compare to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/05/sigint-nsa-collaborates-technology-companies" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/05/sig...</a> )