http://simonwillison.net/2007-11-16T10:25:42+00:00Simon Willison2007-11-16T10:25:42+00:002007-11-16T10:25:42+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Nov/16/schneier/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_sto.html"><p>I don't understand why the NSA was so insistent about including Dual_EC_DRBG in the standard. It makes no sense as a trap door: It's public, and rather obvious. It makes no sense from an engineering perspective: It's too slow for anyone to willingly use it. And it makes no sense from a backwards-compatibility perspective: Swapping one random-number generator for another is easy.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_sto.html">Bruce Schneier</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bruce-schneier">bruce-schneier</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cryptography">cryptography</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dualecdrbg">dualecdrbg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nsa">nsa</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/randomnumbers">randomnumbers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a></p>