Comment WHOSE technical problems? (Score 5, Informative) 71
please note, the technical problems are on the ISS and have noting to do with any Space X equipment.
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.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.