Dan Shumow

Dan Shumow is a cryptographer working at Microsoft Research.

At the CRYPTO 2007 conference rump session, Niels Ferguson and Dan Shumow presented an informal paper describing a potential backdoor in the NIST specified Dual_EC_DRBG cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator. The backdoor was confirmed to be real in 2013 as part of the Edward Snowden leaks.

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