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Re:Government Announces Steps to Restore Confidence on Encry... by throwaway_yy2Di on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @02:17AM (#6365810)
"The whole spiel has made several rounds on HN, though [1]"

If you look at this discussions, HN commenters were very skeptical this was an NSA backdoor. The speculative possibility isn't news; the fact very much is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580434

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Re:Government Announces Steps to Restore Confidence on Encry... by ReidZB on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @09:20AM (#6366946)
That's the thing, though: this article doesn't say that the NSA did generate the Dual_EC_DRBG constants with a backdoor in mind. It just says that internal memos suggest and appear to confirm that they did.

That is, the article isn't really anything new.

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