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Re:NIST "strongly" suggests dropping its own encryption stan... by jlarocco on Friday September 13, 2013 @06:13PM (#6383521)
Am I blind, or does the article never once mention which encryption standard it's talking about?
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Re:NIST "strongly" suggests dropping its own encryption stan... by fejr on Friday September 13, 2013 @06:19PM (#6383552)
It does.

> The NIST standard describes what is known as an "elliptic curve-based deterministic random bit generator."

And also links in the first paragraph to: http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/785571-itlbul2013-0...

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