The NSA's Backdoor in Dual EC
I don't understand the significance of the Dual EC vulnerabilities here. The attackers had write access to the target's crypto code, and altered it to their convenience. What cryptosystem is secure against that threat model?<p>That the "re-keying" edit fits in 32 bytes is a neat math trick, but doesn't seem to me like a central issue. What am I misunderstanding?<p>><i>"In practice this would simply mean hacking into a major firewall manufacturer’s poorly-secured source code repository, changing 32 bytes of data, and then waiting for the windfall when a huge number of VPN connections suddenly became easy to decrypt. And that’s what happened. 10/"</i>