National Institute of Standards and Technology - Wikipedia
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In September 2013, both The Guardian and The New York Times reported that NIST allowed the National Security Agency (NSA) to insert a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator called Dual EC DRBG into NIST standard SP 800-90 that had a kleptographic backdoor that the NSA can use to covertly predict the future outputs of this pseudorandom number generatorthereby allowing the surreptitious decryption of data. Both papers report that the NSA worked c… Employees: Approx. 3,400 Formed: March 3, 1901; 121 years ago (as National Bureau of Standards), became NIST in 1988
Employees: Approx. 3,400
Formed: March 3, 1901; 121 years ago (as National Bureau of Standards), became NIST in 1988
DA: 92 PA: 41 MOZ Rank: 74