“Will bitcoin — and the financial incentive to break bitcoin crypto — reveal other NSA backdoors in ECDSA, SHA256, RIPEMD160, and other algorithms and libraries used by bitcoin? Thieves are likely to exploit any flaws immediately, and move stolen loot to another private key.  The NSA, on the other hand, is likely to avoid exploiting any weaknesses until key moments. Thus, ironically, thieves are playing a role in securing bitcoin and associated algorithms from NSA, Chinese, Russian or mafia tampering. Was the SecureRandom() bug a now-revealed NSA backdoor?  You can thank bitcoin for exposing the problem and leading to immediate fixes, and attention to weak RNG impact.”

http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/09/speculation-are-thieves-competing-with.html

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