Re: [PLUG] encryption

[Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did any of you guys see this yet?
>
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nsa-nist-encryption-scandal&WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20130918
>

That was the ECC PRNG issue I mentioned in my email - that news broke
just recently, though everybody has been avoiding that algorithm
anyway since the potential weakness was published quite a while ago,
and it performs poorly besides.

Rich
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