Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?


	Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?

barrett778

12-17-2007 7:57 PM

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barrett778 says:

Not sure how easy it is to force the use of another random number generator, but I guess I will be learning how to shortly.

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