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Re:Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA by Animats on Monday August 22, 2016 @04:56PM (#12339377)
The number of bad random number generators found in crypto system is deeply suspicious.[1]

[1] http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/064.pdf

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Re:Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA by igravious on Monday August 22, 2016 @05:14PM (#12339494)
Yes, but I wouldn't class that as building in a backdoor to a specific "major piece of software and hardware" or software and hardware range, I would class it as industrial sabotage on a more subtle and general scale. Equally pernicious but not the claim that is being made.
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