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Did the NSA put a backdoor in a new encryption standard?

Posted Thu, Nov 15 2007 6:04 PM by Autonomist0
Because the government is a major consumer of crypto products, government entities create or approve most of the encryption standards used in the industry. One of the key ingredients of crypto technology are random number generators. Getting random numbers...
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