NSA capability
NSA capability
Posted Jan 23, 2014 22:16 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)In reply to: Sponsorship by BrucePerens
Parent article: A new Dual EC DRBG flaw
Breaking Dual EC DRBG is equivalent to breaking a single instance of ECDSA.
If the NSA had the capability to break ECDSA, then they would have generate the points in a 'nothing up my sleeves' way to avoid the perception they planted a backdoor.
If the NSA had the capability to break ECDSA, then they would have generate the points in a 'nothing up my sleeves' way to avoid the perception they planted a backdoor.
So it is reasonable to assume that the NSA could not break ECDSA in 2005.