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Re:NIST reopens draft recommendation on random number genera... by cpeterso on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @12:29AM (#6365515)
The variety of "nothing up my sleeve" numbers listed in Wikipedia suggests that the NSA could brute force a "nothing up my sleeve" source backtracked from a vulnerable number they wanted to use.
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