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>Do you have any?

Don't really have a dog in this fight, but: up until today, there was no evidence "the NSA created and promulgated a flawed formula for generating random numbers to create a "back door" in encryption products".

Were people wrong to be suspicious?



There was previous evidence, it just wasn't as conclusive as a contract with RSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG#Controversy




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