{"id":37969,"date":"2020-10-29T14:15:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T14:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/31708\/NSA-Admits-They-Learned-Their-Lesson-After-Foreign-Spies-Use-Their-Crypto-Backdoor.html"},"modified":"2020-10-29T14:15:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T14:15:28","slug":"nsa-admits-they-learned-their-lesson-after-foreign-spies-use-their-crypto-backdoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/nsa-admits-they-learned-their-lesson-after-foreign-spies-use-their-crypto-backdoor\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA Admits They Learned Their Lesson After Foreign Spies Use Their Crypto Backdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s said the NSA drew up a report on what it learned after a foreign government exploited a weak encryption scheme, championed by the US spying agency, in Juniper firewall software.<\/p>\n<p>However, curiously enough, the NSA has been unable to find a copy of that report.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Reuters reporter Joseph Menn published <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-security-congress-insight-idUSKBN27D1CS\">an account<\/a> of US Senator Ron Wyden&#8217;s efforts to determine whether the NSA is still in the business of placing backdoors in US technology products.<\/p>\n<p>Wyden (D-OR) opposes such efforts because, as the Juniper incident demonstrates, they can backfire, thereby harming national security, and because they diminish the appeal of American-made tech products.<\/p>\n<p>But Wyden&#8217;s inquiries, as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, have been stymied by lack of cooperation from the spy agency and the private sector. In June, Wyden and various colleagues <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/06\/10\/congress_juniper_letter\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sent a letter<\/a> to Juniper CEO Rami Rahim asking about &#8220;several likely backdoors in its NetScreen line of firewalls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Juniper <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2015\/12\/17\/juniper_screen_os_contains_unauthorised_code\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">acknowledged<\/a> in 2015 that \u201cunauthorized code\u201d had been found in ScreenOS, which powers its NetScreen firewalls. It&#8217;s been suggested that the code was in place since around 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Reuters report, citing a previously undisclosed statement to Congress from Juniper, claims that the networking biz acknowledged that &#8220;an unnamed national government had converted the mechanism first created by the NSA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wyden staffers in 2018 were told by the NSA that a &#8220;lessons learned&#8221; report about the incident had been written. But Wyden spokesperson Keith Chu told Reuters that the NSA now claims it can&#8217;t find the file. Wyden&#8217;s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The reason this malicious code was able to decrypt ScreenOS VPN connections has been <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/magazines\/2018\/11\/232227-where-did-i-leave-my-keys\/fulltext\">attributed to<\/a> Juniper&#8217;s &#8220;decision to use the NSA-designed Dual EC Pseudorandom Number Generator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"promo_article\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2015\/06\/05\/you_fail_extended_648.jpg?x=174&amp;y=115&amp;crop=1\" width=\"174\" height=\"115\" alt=\"you_fail_extended_648\"><\/p>\n<h2 title=\"If you let in the Feds, you'll let in anyone\">Juniper&#8217;s VPN security hole is proof that govt backdoors are bonkers<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2015\/12\/23\/juniper_analysis\/\"><span>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The company has yet to clarify exactly why it made that decision. Juniper did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>When former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked agency secrets in 2013, Reuters <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220\">reported<\/a> that years earlier security firm RSA, now part of storage biz EMC, had accepted a $10m contract with the NSA to use Dual Elliptic Curve, or Dual EC, encryption. RSA at the time <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2013\/12\/23\/rsa_nsa_response\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">denied some of the claims<\/a> without disputing the existence of the contract.<\/p>\n<p>The NSA had been keen to see Dual EC adopted and worked with the US Commerce Department to promote it. But in 2007, two Microsoft researchers <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2015\/01\/14\/nsa_sorry_we_borked_nist_encryption_well_sorry_we_got_caught\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> there were serious flaws with the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator that led it to produce weak cryptography. By 2014, US standards agency NIST withdrew support for Dual EC.<\/p>\n<p>Juniper at some point between 2008 and 2009 appears to have added Dual EC support to its products at the request of &#8220;a single customer,&#8221; widely believed to be the NSA.<\/p>\n<p>After Snowden&#8217;s disclosures about the extent of US surveillance operations in 2013, the NSA is said to have revised its policies for compromising commercial products. Wyden and other lawmakers have tried to learn more about these policies but they&#8217;ve been stonewalled, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The NSA also declined to provide backdoor policy details to Reuters, stating that it doesn&#8217;t share &#8220;specific processes and procedures.&#8221; The news agency says three former senior intelligence officials have confirmed that NSA policy now requires a fallout plan with some form of warning in the event an implanted back door gets discovered and exploited.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Register<\/i> asked the NSA to comment. We&#8217;ve not heard back. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/31708\/NSA-Admits-They-Learned-Their-Lesson-After-Foreign-Spies-Use-Their-Crypto-Backdoor.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[9018],"class_list":["post-37969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packet-storm","tag-headlinegovernmentusaspywarejuniperbackdoornsacryptography"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NSA Admits They Learned Their Lesson After Foreign Spies Use Their Crypto Backdoor 2026 | ThreatsHub 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