[Cryptography] NIST announcement about Dual_EC_DRBG

John Kemp john at jkemp.net
Thu Sep 12 06:20:11 EDT 2013


"NIST strongly recommends that, pending the resolution of the security concerns and the 
re-issuance of SP 800-90A, the Dual_EC_DRBG, as specified in the January 2012 version of SP 800-90A, 
no longer be used."

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistbul/itlbul2013_09_supplemental.pdf

- johnk


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