Re:Why Did Satoshi Decide to Use Secp256k1 Instead of Secp25...
by ryanlol on Sunday October 10, 2021 @07:08AM
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Dual_EC_DRBG is bad because someone with access to Junipers source repos was able to backdoor their implementation? Do you realise how preposterous that sounds?
> Presumably it would have been caught sooner had the hack required a backdoor to be hidden in the source code and not some bytes that looked like a magic constant.
> Presumably it would have been caught sooner had the hack required a backdoor to be hidden in the source code and not some bytes that looked like a magic constant.
Have you seen what real life bugdoors look like?