"But the agency has made some strange-looking recommendations over the years. Cryptography depends on random numbers. These are hard for computers, which are decidedly non-random machines, to generate. Making random-number generators less random would be a fine, and subtle, way to undermine secrecy. In 2006 the NSA supported a random-number generator that was 1,000 times slower than its closest competitor. Researchers later found a problem which could badly weaken any encryption that relied on it."
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:32:43 +0000
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