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Re: [ANN PoS+ PoW] eXocoin [EXO] - gen 2.0 - developed from scratch! Free Give-Away
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on 23/02/2014, 17:41:51 UTC
Quote from: Eadeqa on February 23, 2014, 05:38:13 PM
Quote from: coolmist on February 23, 2014, 05:15:16 PM
The implementation of RSA over Curve25519 (per the whitepaper) is questionable...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57616205-83/security-firm-rsa-took-millions-from-nsa-report/

You are confusing RSA, the public-private key cryptography, which is a well known public domain algorithm, with rsa the name of a company.


Being a backdoor or not, it can be avoided by choosing a good random number generator:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/nsa-backdoor/all/