Juniper is using Dual EC....are you kidding me? Now I have zero doubt this is Juniper&#x27;s fault because of its cooperation with NSA to keep backdoors in its systems.<p>If I remember correctly even tptacek was claiming initially that &quot;Dual EC is not so bad...not that many companies use it anyway, because they would be stupid to use a 1000x slower algorithm&quot;. Yeah, except some of the biggest networking equipment makers in the world who do use it, and who sell products to many other small and large companies, too. Quite a bit of an attack surface for the NSA.<p>The point was always that Dual_EC should&#x27;ve <i>never</i> become a NIST standard, no matter how &quot;bad it was and that <i>probably</i> nobody would use it anyway&quot;. It was made a standard for a reason by the NSA, to convince at least some of the big companies to use it. And they succeeded in that.<p>We can only hope that the good people who work in standard bodies will never allow something like that to happen again, because in the end backdoors always end up being used for &quot;evil&quot;, whether by the initial creators or by someone else who finds them later.