{"id":153,"date":"2014-09-11T21:35:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T21:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lapsedordinary.net\/?p=153"},"modified":"2014-09-11T21:35:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T21:35:23","slug":"a-talk-on-dual_ec_drbg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/2014\/09\/11\/a-talk-on-dual_ec_drbg\/","title":{"rendered":"A talk on Dual_EC_DRBG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in May I gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackerspace.gr\/wiki\/Dual_EC_DRBG\">talk<\/a> on the subject &#8220;Dual_EC_DRBG; or, the story of a not so random backdoor&#8221; for the <i>OWASP<\/i> chapter in Athens, Greece.<br \/>\nAs the title suggests, the talk was on the Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator, which we are now all but certain was backdoored by the NSA. I wrote a <a href=\"\/\/www.lapsedordinary.net\/2013\/09\/23\/how-the-nsa-cheated-cryptography\/\">blog<\/a> about this last year.<br \/>\nThe slides, in case you&#8217;re interested, can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackerspace.gr\/wiki\/images\/Dual_EC_DRBG.pdf\">here<\/a> (PDF). No recording of the presentation was made.<br \/>\nIf you do like to watch a recording on Dual_EC_DRBG, I can recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/woot14\/technical-sessions\/presentation\/practical-kleptography\">this<\/a> presentation &#8220;Practical Kleptography&#8221; by Matthew Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in May I gave a talk on the subject &#8220;Dual_EC_DRBG; or, the story of a not so random backdoor&#8221; for the OWASP chapter in Athens, Greece. As the title suggests, the talk was on the Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator, which we are now all but certain was backdoored by the NSA. I wrote a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}