Technology Stir Fry"A nearly impenetrable thicket of geekitude…"Dual_EC_DRBG Back Door- November 15, 2007 Bruce Schneier reports that one of the pseudo-random number generators in the recently released NIST Special Publication 800-90 (.pdf) appears to include something that looks awfully like an intentional back door: What Shumow and Ferguson showed is that these numbers have a relationship with a second, secret set of numbers that can act as a kind of skeleton key. If you know the secret numbers, you can predict the output of the random-number generator after collecting just 32 bytes of its...http://www.iay.org.uk/blog/2007/11/dual_ec_drbg_ba.html |