The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that it is set to remove the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator (Dual_EC_DRBG) algorithm from its guidance ...

The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has revised its recommendations for methods used to generate random numbers, and formally removed an algorithm suspected to ...

Although weaknesses in one pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) at the heart of a US National Security Agency (NSA) scandal have been known for years, recent media attention has given light to ...

Juniper Networks will be removing the random number generator used by ScreenOS software in NetScreen series firewalls, following the discovery of “unauthorized code”. The Dual Elliptic Curve ...