Re:Thoughts on Intel's upcoming Software Guard Extensions (P...
by JulianMorrison on Monday September 09, 2013 @06:53AM
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Also, things leak by other means, eg: Son-Of-Stuxnet escapes into the wild with the constants in its penetration code.
If Edward Snowden was willing to give up his salary and liberty for what he thought was the moral thing to do then I think it's reasonable to assume there must be many more people within the NSA who are willing to leak secrets for money or loyalty to nation states, corporations or terrorist groups.
Some of those people will have given the Dual_EC_DRBG constants or applications that will crack cryptosystems using that PRNG to 'bad' actors.