From: Vincenzo lozzo Subject: practical kleptograp y Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 1:17:59 PM Cc: "Jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com>, Joshua Cooper Ramo To: Joichi Ito The speaker is somewhat biased (you can guess in which direction), but this explains how some of the elliptic curves suggested by NIST were allegedly backdoored. It's pretty high level, so don't need a lot of crypto understanding for it: https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot14/technical-sessions/presentation/practical-kleptography Besides the technical/crypto part it's a very good way to understand how certain processes within the US govt work EFTA_R1_00045784 EFTA01749265