Was NSA behind Back Door in Juniper Software? | Wired
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Wired and technical researcher Ralf-Philipp Weinmann reported that a sophisticated backdoor exists in Juniper Networks' ScreenOS (used by NetScreen firewalls) which appears to exploit weaknesses in the Dual_EC pseudo-random number generator and a Juniper VPN configuration error; researchers suggest the NSA may have been indirectly responsible by creating or enabling the weaknesses repurposed by attackers.
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