Can you explain how they are related?<p>My understanding of this is that malicious code was deliberately added to Juniper&#x27;s software, not that it exploited some existing code that Juniper thought was safe. This could happen regardless of what kind of encryption is in use in the surrounding code&#x2F;infrastructure.<p>If my understanding is correct, why is Dual_EC relevant?<p>edit: And a follow on question: If this back door only works by assuming Dual EC is backdoored, is that not incontrovertible proof that the NSA is behind the entire thing, which there is at least some doubt that they are? That, or someone else has found the hypothesized private key in Dual EC. Either scenario seems like far more significant news than this story already is.