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The RNG that was only ever used in one (RSA) company's product and then swiftly deprecated once the news dropped?

That's a far cry from "Practically every major piece of software and hardware that's not open source has a backdoor embedded."



It's a bit disingenuous to call the RSA lib "one company's product" when it was used by many, many other products.


Is it one company's product or is it not?!

The pedantry around here can be infuriating sometimes. You take issue with my strictly true comment, and ignore Analemma_'s comment upthread (every product) which is strictly false.


The clue is in the name. It's a library, it is both the work of one company and used in many products, which is why it is suspected that it was targeted. You're both right. GP is not being pedantic.




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