On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg <jeff...@goldmark.org>wrote:
> If the NSA had the capability to pick weak curves while covering their > tracks in such a way, why wouldn’t they have pulled the same trick with > Dual_EC_DRBG? > <tinfoilhat>They wanted us to think they were incompetent, so we would expect that Dual_EC_DRBG was their failed attempt to tamper with a cryptographic standard, and so we would overlook the more sinister and subtle attempts to tamper with the NIST curves</tinfoilhat> -- Tony Arcieri
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