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Posted by timothy on Saturday September 21, 2013 @05:44PM from the surely-they-have-some-alternatives-to-suggest dept.

rroman writes "RSA has recommended developers not to use Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator (RNG), which has been known to be weak and slow since 2006. The funny thing is, that even though this has been known for so long, it is the default RNG in BSafe cryptographic toolkit, which is product of RSA."

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Re:Doesn't matter (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday September 21, 2013 @05:57PM (#44913771)

I see that you're not using American software, let's go into this back room and you can tell me why you hate America.

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