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Comment Dodgy random numbers (Score 1) 397

From the Notable Changes document:

Adds the NIST SP 800-90 Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC) pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) to the list of available PRNG in Windows Vista.

Do they mean this one by any chance?

Slashdot has covered this before but, conspiracy theories aside, isn't the possibility of a backdoor enough to make this algorithm a misfeature?

Don't panic, it's not a security problem for you unless software developers choose to use it. I just can't see why they are giving us such a bad option.

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