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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
by
SFHere
on 11/06/2014, 04:18:39 UTC
Not to forget, there's some speculation in the more tinfoil-hatty segments that the NSA may have supplied algorithms that are "pre-weakened". Seems unlikely but with everything that has been coming out lately, perhaps not to be dismissed out-of-hand so quickly.
IIRC, it was confirmed (by Snowden?) that the NSA had weakened a random number generator used by some OS (Windows?) to  generate keys in some popular crypto protocol (https?).  The numbers were drawn from a smaller domain than clients expected,  making the keys easier to find by brute force. 

Is this that Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor I've been hearing about?