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The NSA surely has ordered a backdoor.

>In December 2013, a Reuters news article alleged that in 2004, before NIST standardized Dual_EC_DRBG, NSA paid RSA Security $10 million in a secret deal to use Dual_EC_DRBG as the default in the RSA BSAFE cryptography library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG



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