News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer. Parent comment

Re:Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer by onebaddude on Friday December 20, 2013 @09:05PM (#6945366)
>Do you have any?

Don't really have a dog in this fight, but: up until today, there was no evidence "the NSA created and promulgated a flawed formula for generating random numbers to create a "back door" in encryption products".

Were people wrong to be suspicious?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer by nitrogen on Saturday December 21, 2013 @06:21AM (#6946426)
There was previous evidence, it just wasn't as conclusive as a contract with RSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG#Controversy
[ Parent | on HN ]