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Re:NIST reopens draft recommendation on random number genera... by nullc on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @01:16AM (#6365654)
I've actually seen someone choose to use Dual EC DRBG until I yelled "NOOOO DONT": Their software was implementing ECDSA signing, so all the primitives were already there!
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Re:NIST reopens draft recommendation on random number genera... by tptacek on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @10:31AM (#6367357)
It doesn't matter if you have all the primitives. The problem isn't that it's hard to code; the problem is that it's very slow.
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