Yeah, they've burned almost all of their trust by acquiescing tech leadership to...

dfc · on March 25, 2014

What should we do with UTC? Petition OBSPM to stop including NIST measurements in the calculation of UTC? Should we include USNO in the list of "tainted clocks"? Things are going to start to get crazy when you factor in GPS.

midas007 · on March 25, 2014

Spurious red herring... the OP topic is crypto / CSPRNGs.

dfc · on March 25, 2014

The OP topic is crypto? Is the OP crypto topic your blanket rejection of anything that comes from NIST or the link with:

           WARNING:
  DO NOT USE BEACON GENERATED
       VALUES AS SECRET
      CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEYS.

midas007 · on March 25, 2014

Or that because it comes from NIST I should trust it because some unrelated persons have won awards. Let's not forget a likely backdoor that was either consented to, or worse, permitted with extreme incompetence. [0]

Do you work for NIST or NSA? Just curious.

[0] http://blog.0xbadc0de.be/archives/155