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by consoomer 1002 days ago
Wasn't the original backdoor in a code example the NSA provided to companies interested in using cryptography? They gave an example seed or whatever, and most companies copy/pasted it instead of generating their own primes, so the NSA could break it trivially.

My memory around this is fuzzy and I can't seem to find the original source.

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Ah yeah, that rings a bell now!