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I'm guessing you don't work in cryptography research, and so posting on deep security issues seems pretty silly to me. The US government has endorsed demonstrab
by joshuak 13y ago
I'm guessing you don't work in cryptography research, and so posting on deep security issues seems pretty silly to me. The US government has endorsed demonstrably weak random number generating algorithms, and it is security professionals jobs to be very conservative.
As was discussed in Bruce Schneier's article about Dual_EC_DRBG:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_sto.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_st...
(Edit: This article was just discussed on HN only two weeks ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5997483 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5997483)