• Syntha@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Again with the fearmongering, do you not read your own source? Dual_EC_DRBG hasn’t been used for over a decade now

    On April 21, 2014, NIST withdrew Dual_EC_DRBG from its draft guidance on random number generators recommending "current users of Dual_EC_DRBG transition to one of the three remaining approved algorithms as quickly as possible.

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      1 month ago

      …yeah, nobody used it after it became obvious that they put a backdoor in it…

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        1 month ago

        So why are you claiming that when people use elliptic curve cryptography, it has a backdoor? This is not true.