On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Eugen Leitl <[1]eugen@leitl.org>
   wrote:

     ----- Forwarded message from Christian Weisgerber
     <[2]naddy@mips.inka.de> -----
     Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 16:11:47 +0000 (UTC)
     From: Christian Weisgerber <[3]naddy@mips.inka.de>
     To: [4]tt@postbiota.org
     Subject: Re: [tt] How a Crypto Backdoor Pitted the Tech World
     Against the NSA
     Eugen Leitl <[5]eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
     > [6]http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/nsa-backdoor/all/
     These articles from Matthew Green's Blog offer a better
     understanding
     instead of cutesy writing and soundbites:
     The Many Flaws of Dual_EC_DRBG
     [7]http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/the-many-flaws-of
     -dualecdrbg.html

   I have posted this before in a linkedin group. It is really interesting
   the Mr,Blaine Bateman(also linkedin group member)
   "Then what happened is some arrogant scientist at NIST (full
   disclosure--I was formerly a NIST employee, and the terms of my
   departure still burn as a fire in the pit of my stomach) conveniently
   "forgot" to put the correct ones in the standard, or did it on purpose
   since "Anyone of modest skill in cryptography will detect the problem
   and come up with their own P-Q pair correctly. Anyone who doesn't
   deserves what they get." There are, in my estimation, people that
   arrogant employed by NIST."
   No good. No.

References

   1. mailto:eugen@leitl.org
   2. mailto:naddy@mips.inka.de
   3. mailto:naddy@mips.inka.de
   4. mailto:tt@postbiota.org
   5. mailto:eugen@leitl.org
   6. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/nsa-backdoor/all/
   7. http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/the-many-flaws-of-dualecdrbg.html