From the Hacker News thread
NSA put (effective) backdoor in Dual_EC_DRBG: schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the…... Thread by someone directly involved on why the ISO rejected NSA ciphers in the past (hint: they refused to justify design decisions, lied, and attacked the credibility of people who had put out actually-secure crypto): twitter.com/TomerAshur/status/988696306… Either they're too incompetent to be trusted or are bad actors and should be treated as such.