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by Arkanum 1746 days ago
Computerphile[1] did a video about the specifics of the backdoor in Dual EC DRBG.

As i understand it, the hackers replaced a magic number Q with a different value than the standards compliant one, where they had pre-computed P.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nybVFJVXbww