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Re:Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Go... by tptacek on Saturday December 19, 2015 @07:14PM (#10765463)
Unless the backdoor disables the X9.31 stage, what's the point of tampering with the Dual EC RNG, if its outputs are going to be mangled anyways?
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Re:Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Go... by pbsd on Saturday December 19, 2015 @07:48PM (#10765561)
I don't know, it makes little sense to me too. Maybe there's some subtle flaw somewhere, which I haven't spotted. Since subtlety doesn't seem to be a thing with the changes we've seen so far, I'm not sure what to think.
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