Re:On the Juniper backdoor
by baby on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @08:49AM
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* It seems like there was already a backdoor in place with the Dual EC in place. That Jupiner could use.
* Or maybe they had to use Dual EC because of government pressure but they changed the EC keypair to fuck with the NSA. NSA is not happy and changed it back.
* Or ...
In any case, what is clear is that a backdoored PRNG (Dual EC) was implemented behind a "fake" PRNG.
Someone knew that, and thus changed the EC keypair of the backdoored PRNG.
* Or maybe they had to use Dual EC because of government pressure but they changed the EC keypair to fuck with the NSA. NSA is not happy and changed it back.
* Or ...
In any case, what is clear is that a backdoored PRNG (Dual EC) was implemented behind a "fake" PRNG.
Someone knew that, and thus changed the EC keypair of the backdoored PRNG.
This is very shady.