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::::I think this is quite out of topic and should be removed. Even though there are links between random number generation and cryptography, Dual_EC_DBRG is a random number generator, based on elliptic curves (the mathematical objects). This article should be about the cryptographic primitives. <code>#!/bin/[[User:DokReggar|DokReggar]] [[User_talk:DokReggar|-talk]]</code> 12:46, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
::::I strongly disagree. There is no such thing as an NSA ECC backdoor (that we know of), there is an NSA Dual_EC_DBRG backdoor. Furthermore, the fact that elliptic curves were used as the construct for this RNG is a mere detail; the NSA could have just as easily based this upon modular exponentiation in integer fields. Elliptic curves just '''happen''' to be used by this backdoored construct, but this coincidence is only of interest in other articles. It is irrelevant here, especially when positioned ''actual implementation issues specific to elliptic curves''.
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