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Comment Re:Whatever you may think ... (Score 5, Informative) 447


From the proof-of-concept page I mentioned above.

Conclusion

It is quite obvious in light of the recent revelations from Snowden that this weakness was introduced by purpose by the NSA. It is very elegant and leaks its complete internal state in only 32 bytes of output, which is very impressive knowing it takes 32 bytes of input as a seed.

Here is the Github repo for the PoC code.

This PRNG is not the NSA making a crypto system stronger ala DES, it's a backdoor.

Comment Re:Whatever you may think ... (Score 4, Informative) 447


RSA has denied having knowledge of the backdoor, says NSA tricked them, and has never denied the $10M payout. Some of Snowden's leaks mention it.
Reuters has a summary

proof-of-concept backdoor with a link to the github repo.

None of that is a smoking gun, but there is enough smoke to tell me there is a fire.

Comment Re:Whatever you may think ... (Score 5, Insightful) 447


Boy, if there's one thing that could ever kill Open Source it would be being held legally liable for a commit with a bug in it.

It burns me that RSA is not held liable for their $10M NSA backdoor in Dual_EC_DRBG PRNG. Customers should be flocking in droves but RSA gives enough swag at conferences that the suits don't care.

Your privacy sold off for $10M and some mouse pads.

Comment Re:What a joke (Score 4, Insightful) 195

Then why aren't you buying your own modem for less than $50 and saving yourself the money every month? I mean, I get it, I think Comcast is for the birds too but honestly bitching about something you can buy yourself and they'll absolutely allow you to take on all the risk for is not something to choose to complain about.

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