How to try to predict the output of Micali-Schnorr Generator (MS-DRBG) knowing the factorization. Part II

See also Part I and Part III of this series tl;dr In the previous article of the same series we tried to predict the output of Micali-Schnorr Generator MS-DRBG knowing the factorization. In this blog post we continue the effort started in part I showing different strategies. If you want to skip a...

TrueCrypt Security Audit Concludes No NSA Backdoor

The Security audit of TrueCrypt disk-encryption software has been completed, with no evidence of any critical design vulnerabilities or deliberate backdoors in its code. TrueCrypt -- one of the world's most-used open source file encryption software used by Millions of privacy and security...

Second NSA Crypto Tool Found in RSA BSafe

A team of academics released a study on the maligned Dual EC DRBG algorithm used in RSA Security’s BSafe and other cryptographic libraries that includes new evidence that the National Security Agency used a second cryptographic tool alongside Dual EC DRBG in Bsafe to facilitate spying. Allegation...

Bitcoins - Secured by NSA designed Encryption or Backdoored ?

It's been nearly three months since Edward Snowden started telling the world about the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of global communications. After the last week report that the National Security Agency has leveraged its cooperative relationships with specific industry partners to...