<div dir="ltr"><div><div>NYT confirming suspected Dual EC DRBG backdoor, citing leaked memo, but didn't include the PDF/PPT/mbox/nfo/whatever.. Does anybody have a copy?<br></div><br></div>From <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/government-announces-steps-to-restore-confidence-on-encryption-standards/?src=twrhp&_r=1&">http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/government-announces-steps-to-restore-confidence-on-encryption-standards/?src=twrhp&_r=1&</a><br>

<div><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">But internal memos leaked by a former N.S.A. contractor, Edward Snowden,
 suggest that the N.S.A. generated one of the random number generators 
used in a 2006 N.I.S.T. standard — <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060930163233/http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-90/SP800-90_DRBG-June2006-final.pdf">called the Dual EC DRBG standard</a>
 — which contains a back door for the N.S.A. In publishing the standard,
 N.I.S.T. acknowledged “contributions” from N.S.A., but not primary 
authorship.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>R <br></div></div></div>