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Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by tptacek on Friday January 26, 2018 @10:38AM (#16239935)
It will leak, period? What's the Dual EC private key?
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Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by naasking on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:41PM (#16243117)
1. "I'm not aware of it having happened, therefore it has not and will not happen". I won't even bother listing all the fallacies in that position.

2. Dual EC isn't protecting anything of value, and hasn't in about 15 years. If your reply is meant to be pedantic about my phrasing, notice that the context is about encryption that is actually in use.

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Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by tptacek on Friday January 26, 2018 @06:47PM (#16243849)
It's not protecting anything of value, you mean, besides every VPN session generated by the most important vendor of hardware VPNs in the industry prior to 2016?
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