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NSA put (effective) backdoor in Dual_EC_DRBG:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_s...

Thread by someone directly involved on why the ISO rejected NSA ciphers in the past (hint: they refused to justify design decisions, lied, and attacked the credibility of people who had put out actually-secure crypto):

https://twitter.com/TomerAshur/status/988696306674630656

Either they're too incompetent to be trusted or are bad actors and should be treated as such.

parent kick 7 years ago

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