In fact I believe the NSA compromised a standard method on random number generation so that it would produce predictable results and allow them to take advantage of that
Bruce Schneier has long written that the probability is unacceptably high that the NSA has installed a PRNG backdoor in the widely accepted SHA-3 standard protocol for cryptography (which NIST grudgingly accepted only with a footnoted caveat that one might prefer to use a more efficient alternative). If such a backdoor exists (which seems nearly certain to me), the NSA can rather easily crack into any level it chooses of such encryption, and that means virtually all the BTC and altcoin protocols - which would be the rather instant death of such cryptocurrencies. Is Quarkcoin the only alternative cryptocoin that claims it does not use the tainted PNRG?
