Could someone provide background on the the Dual EC issue, and why this announcement is probably more important for the Dual EC implications than for Juniper&#x27;s backdoor, as tptacek says below?<p>While I wish I was an uber-crypto-nerd, unfortunately I only have time to be an occasional crypto geek.<p>EDIT: Here&#x27;s a start, from another front page HN article: &quot;Dual-EC was an NSA effort to introduce a backdoored random number generator (RNG) that, given knowledge of a secret key, allowed an attacker to observe output from the RNG and then predict its future output.&quot;