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Elliptic Curve Back Door - Computerphile
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Dr Mike Pound explains the suspected backdoor in the Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator and how elliptic curve constants could let someone predict its output.
HN points to it as an intuitive explanation of how NIST standardized a backdoored generator.
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