[TriLUG] have ya'll seen this?

Heath Roberts htroberts at gmail.com
Thu Jan 9 13:39:24 EST 2014


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:56 PM, <matt at noway2.thruhere.net> wrote:

The RSA algorithm was open source, freely distributed, available as
> libraries, etc.  It didn't stop it from being tampered with in a manner
> that wasn't apparent to the many smart eyes that more than gazed at it.
>

Are you referring to Dual_EC? If so then I think your statement is
incorrect. The crypto community has regarded it as a poor random number
generator since shortly after it was released.

-- 
Heath Roberts
htroberts at gmail.com


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