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What is the state of encryption in the world outside of the US? (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So we all know NIST is being puppeteered by the NSA, specifically in regards to quantum-secure encryption, which means you probably can't use that in certain situations. What are non-14-eye governments doing with encryption? Does anyone have any interesting sources or names of algorithms or anything that can help in this regard?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

damn I didn't realize china had their own TLS ciphers and everything, pretty neat. I haven't seen any substantive criticism of SM4 or its associated hashing function, etc.

Looking into it I found one or two fearmongering sources that go "this is chinese, the ietf only included it for compatibility, DONT USE IT", and a bunch of cryptanalysis papers, mostly from Chinese authors (but written in perfect english which is neat) that seem great but I don't have the expertise to evaluate them in any way.

given that SM4, etc were classified until 2006, a lot of what's cutting edge now is probably classified.

I did find this though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM9_(cryptography_standard) which is pretty interesting. I don't know if it's completely novel encryption techniques or if it uses an existing cipher under the hood but regardless very interesting stuff