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Comment by timewizard

Have people forgotten about this already?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

It's not at all impossible to put a backdoor in a protocol which requires knowledge of a key in order to exploit. This isn't even the only example where this is thought to have occured.

parent timewizard 1 year ago

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