[TriLUG] have ya'll seen this?

[matt at noway2.thruhere.net]

I think this is along the lines of what I was thinking of:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/02/lousy_random_nu.html

Not the Dual_EC, which I understand wasn't adopted in SSH.  I also recall
something about them being involved in and revising random number or key
standards.  This would have been the second time they have done so.  The
first time it was acknowledged that their input improved the standards,
but the second time the changes are now suspect.  Perhaps that was the
Dual-EC?


> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:56 PM, <matt at noway2.thruhere.net> wrote:
>
> The RSA algorithm was open source, freely distributed, available as
>> libraries, etc.  It didn't stop it from being tampered with in a manner
>> that wasn't apparent to the many smart eyes that more than gazed at it.
>>
>
> Are you referring to Dual_EC? If so then I think your statement is
> incorrect. The crypto community has regarded it as a poor random number
> generator since shortly after it was released.
>
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