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Re:Minerva: Practically exploitable side-channel leakage in ... by ohazi on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:15PM (#21153980)
We also know that the NSA secretly paid RSA-the-company $10 million to use dual ec as the default.
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Re:Minerva: Practically exploitable side-channel leakage in ... by tptacek on Saturday October 05, 2019 @06:47PM (#21168483)
We also know that Juniper not only used Dual-EC for their VPNs, but that someone at some point got access to their source tree and rekeyed the backdoor to a new secret. It's obviously a backdoor.
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