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Possible Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor by NSA


GuardMoony

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NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?hp&pagewanted=all&_r=0

Full announcement:

http://www.nist.gov/director/cybersecuritystatement-091013.cfm

In short:

They think there is a back-door in the RNG for making encryption witch would lead into a easy way for them to decrypt anything that used this RNG

List of Company encryption usage:

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/documents/drbg/drbgval.html

Company's like Apple, Cisco, Juniper, ...

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