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[stuart68]

random numbers are the startign point for cryptography, and the NSA pushed for inclusion of Dual_EC_DRBG for AES256. It was determined that there are constants and seret numbers for Dual_EC_DRBG, and havign these will allow you to crak the encryption. We don't know if NSA has these, but we don't know they do not. Odd they would push for Dual_EC_DRBG when it is so slow compared to other protocols for random number generation.

These things are not magical, they all strt with some random number and the random number is created by some set of code created with some secret numbers and constants. Someone has those or had them at some point.