Juniper blinks: firewall will nuke the NSA's favorite random number generator
by Cory Doctorow from on (#107GP)
In the month since network security giant Juniper Networks was forced to admit that its products had NSA-linked backdoors, the company's tried a lot of different strategies: minimizing assurances, apologies, firmware updates -- everything, that is, except for removing th Dual_EC random number generator that is widely understood to have been compromised by the NSA. (more")