NIST formally chops NSA-tainted random number generator

By Juha Saarinen on Jun 29, 2015 6:47AM

Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm no longer part of standard.

The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has revised its recommendations for methods used to generate random numbers, and formally removed an algorithm suspected to contain a National Security Agency (NSA) backdoor. Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked ...

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