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And the author of this MS paper is who first publicised the potential Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor years before it was outed by Snowden.



Outed in what way?


Outed by the memos he leaked:

> Classified N.S.A. memos appear to confirm that the fatal weakness, discovered by two Microsoft cryptographers in 2007, was engineered by the agency. The N.S.A. wrote the standard and aggressively pushed it on the international group, privately calling the effort “a challenge in finesse.” From https://www.propublica.org/article/the-nsas-secret-campaign-...

Or for some other discussion https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/01/14/hopefull...


On the Possibility of a Back Door in the NIST SP800-90 Dual EC-PRNG (2007, Shumow and Ferguson, https://rump2007.cr.yp.to/15-shumow.pdf)




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