{"id":7934,"date":"2013-09-23T17:10:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T22:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7934"},"modified":"2015-03-10T19:10:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T23:10:46","slug":"the-many-flaws-of-dual_ec_drbg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/23\/the-many-flaws-of-dual_ec_drbg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Many Flaws of Dual_EC_DRBG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cryptographyengineering.com\/2013\/09\/the-many-flaws-of-dualecdrbg.html\">Matthew Green<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rentzsch\/status\/382263970276454403\">Jonathan Rentzsch<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.cryptographyengineering.com\/2013\/09\/the-many-flaws-of-dualecdrbg.html\"><p>In this post I&rsquo;m going to try to explain the curious story of Dual-EC. While I&rsquo;ll do my best to keep this discussion at a high and non-mathematical level, be forewarned that I&rsquo;m probably going to fail at least at a couple of points.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2013\/09\/stop-using-nsa-influence-code-in-our-product-rsa-tells-customers\/\">Dan Goodin<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2013\/09\/stop-using-nsa-influence-code-in-our-product-rsa-tells-customers\/\"><p>Officials from RSA Security are advising customers of the company&rsquo;s BSAFE toolkit and Data Protection Manager to stop using a crucial cryptography component in the products that were recently revealed to contain a backdoor engineered by the National Security Agency (NSA).<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Green (via Jonathan Rentzsch): In this post I&rsquo;m going to try to explain the curious story of Dual-EC. While I&rsquo;ll do my best to keep this discussion at a high and non-mathematical level, be forewarned that I&rsquo;m probably going to fail at least at a couple of points. Dan Goodin: Officials from RSA Security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[705,48],"class_list":["post-7934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-nsa","tag-security"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10755,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions\/10755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}