Hi,

Probably everyone knows by now that Dual_EC_DRBG got some bad reputation
lately:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/11/securitymatters_1115

Matthew Green points out that OpenSSL is one of the few libs that
actually implements Dual_EC_DRBG:
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/377946072532140032
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/377946680395845633

I am not familiar with the details, but want to bring it up for
discussion here. Maybe it should be disabled or at least discouraged in
the docs.

cu,
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