• Dual_EC_DRBG (Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator) is an algorithm that was presented as a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number...
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  • of bits provided per iteration) than in the Dual_EC_DRBG standard, and that the P and Q in the Dual_EC_DRBG standard (which were revealed in 2013 to be...
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    reported, was the Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor. With the renewed focus on Dual_EC_DRBG, it was noted that RSA Security's BSAFE used Dual_EC_DRBG by default, which...
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  • NIST SP 800-90A (redirect from CTR DRBG)
    Earlier versions included a fourth generator, Dual_EC_DRBG (based on elliptic curve cryptography). Dual_EC_DRBG was later reported to probably contain a kleptographic...
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    Flaws of Dual_EC_DRBG". Blog.cryptographyengineering.com. Archived from the original on August 20, 2016. Retrieved October 9, 2013. "Dual_Ec_Drbg backdoor:...
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  • cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG) in BSAFE was Dual_EC_DRBG, which contained an alleged backdoor from NSA, in addition to being a...
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  • customers discontinue using any software based on Dual_EC_DRBG. In the wake of the exposure of Dual_EC_DRBG as "an NSA undercover operation", cryptography...
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    NIST certified cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator Dual EC DRBG. If for example an SSL connection is created using this random number...
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  • Publication 800-90. One of the generators, Dual_EC_DRBG, was favored by the National Security Agency. Dual_EC_DRBG uses elliptic curve technology and includes...
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  • asymmetric backdoor into the NIST-certified pseudorandom number generator Dual_EC_DRBG. Most PRNG algorithms produce sequences that are uniformly distributed...
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  • The Dual_EC_DRBG cryptographic pseudo-random number generator from the NIST SP 800-90A is thought to contain a kleptographic backdoor. Dual_EC_DRBG utilizes...
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  • NSA had potentially implemented a backdoor into the P-256 curve based Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm. While not directly related, suspicious aspects of the NIST's...
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    targets". The New York Times has reported that the random number generator Dual_EC_DRBG contains a back door, which would allow the NSA to break encryption keys...
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  • targets". The New York Times has reported that the random number generator Dual EC DRBG contains a back door from the NSA, which would allow the NSA to break...
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  • rather than provide a from-scratch solution. CNG also adds support for Dual_EC_DRBG, a pseudorandom number generator defined in NIST SP 800-90A that could...
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  • cryptovirology. Notably, NSA inserted a kleptographic backdoor into the Dual EC DRBG standard. There exists an experimental asymmetric backdoor in RSA key...
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    differential cryptanalysis, a method not publicly known at the time. Dual_EC_DRBG, a NIST-recommended cryptographic pseudo-random bit generator, came under...
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    (hash function) used as key stream extractor, and primitives such as the Dual EC DRBG that is known to be backdoored. Telegram has been blocked temporarily...
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  • cryptographic algorithms. The NIST Dual EC DRBG random bit generator has an asymmetric backdoor in it. The EC-DRBG algorithm utilizes the discrete-log...
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  • describing a potential kleptographic backdoor in the NIST specified Dual_EC_DRBG cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator. The kleptographic...
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  • 11, 2018. Schneier, Bruce (November 15, 2007). "The Strange Story of Dual_EC_DRBG". Schneier on Security. Archived from the original on April 23, 2019...
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  • the firmware code in 2015 showed that a backdoor key could exist using Dual_EC_DRBG. This would enable whoever held that key to passively decrypt traffic...
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    to hack into them. The BlackBerry software includes support for the Dual EC DRBG CSPRNG algorithm which, due to being probably backdoored by the NSA,...
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  • insert a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator called Dual EC DRBG into NIST standard SP 800-90 that had a kleptographic backdoor that the...
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    ScreenOS firmware code in December 2015 discovered a backdoor key using Dual EC DRBG allowing to passively decrypt the traffic encrypted by ScreenOS. This...
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  • suggest that the NSA has added back doors to at least one algorithm; the Dual_EC_DRBG random number algorithm may contain a backdoor accessible only to the...
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  • DTP—Desktop Publishing DTR—Data Terminal Ready or Data transfer rate Dual_EC_DRBGDual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator DV—Domain-validated...
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    Security Agency, and researchers discovered a backdoor in the Agency's Dual EC DRBG algorithm. These events raised suspicions of the elliptic curve parameters...
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    encryption, and security, Green's blog entries on NSA's backdoor in Dual_EC_DRBG, and RSA Security's usage of the backdoored cryptographically secure...
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  • against the American Federal Information Processing Standard detailing the Dual EC DRBG, essentially exploiting the repeated discrete logarithm based "kleptogram"...
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