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marshray on Sept 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption St...

That seems unlikely, DRBGs are really quite solid little things. Or in other words, if the other NIST DRBGs are significantly broken it would almost certainly imply that the hash functions upon which they were built are broken much much worse.

fusiongyro on Sept 28, 2012 [–]

It's easy to see how one could get caught up in a web of paranoid implications, each one less likely to be true than the one before.

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