[Cryptography] Dual EC backdoor was patented by Certicom?

[Hanno Böck]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 04:21:33 +0200
Tanja Lange <tanja at hyperelliptic.org> wrote:

> > This is all certainly quite interesting, but it is hardly new. This
> > fact has been known since Dec 2013:
> > http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/12/a-few-more-notes-on-nsa-random-number.html
> > 
> > Or am I missing something here? From what I can see, the project
> > bullrun webpage just lists already known facts (however I think it
> > was originally Tanja Lange who made this issue public, so credit
> > goes to the right people - it's just not new).
> >
> At the risk of touting my own horn here: 
> That part of the projectbullrun page is up since Thursday and has
> much more. In Dec we knew that there was a publication in 2007 and
> that there were differences between the claims in that and the
> granted ones; there was a priority date of 2005 on the 2007
> publication.

Okay, thanks for clarification, then I was obviously wrong. I just had
a quick lock on the webpage and didn't read it in detail, I thought
that it's just a writeup of already known facts.

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