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Re:Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA by nitrogen on Monday August 22, 2016 @03:18PM (#12338678)
Dual EC DRBG.
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Re:Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA by Karunamon on Monday August 22, 2016 @03:26PM (#12338730)
The RNG that was only ever used in one (RSA) company's product and then swiftly deprecated once the news dropped?

That's a far cry from "Practically every major piece of software and hardware that's not open source has a backdoor embedded."

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Re:Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA by nitrogen on Monday August 22, 2016 @03:47PM (#12338883)
It's a bit disingenuous to call the RSA lib "one company's product" when it was used by many, many other products.
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Re:Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA by Karunamon on Monday August 22, 2016 @04:58PM (#12339387)
Is it one company's product or is it not?!

The pedantry around here can be infuriating sometimes. You take issue with my strictly true comment, and ignore Analemma_'s comment upthread (every product) which is strictly false.

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Re:Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA by igravious on Monday August 22, 2016 @05:19PM (#12339524)
The clue is in the name. It's a library, it is both the work of one company and used in many products, which is why it is suspected that it was targeted. You're both right. GP is not being pedantic.
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