The "Extended Random" Feature in the BSAFE Crypto Library

2017-12-28 12:30

Matthew Green wrote a fascinating blog post about the NSA's efforts to increase the amount of random data exposed in the TLS protocol, and how it interacts with the NSA's backdoor into the DUAL_EC_PRNG random number generator to weaken TLS....

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