NSA 'altered random-number generator'

US intelligence agency the NSA subverted a standards process to be able to break encryption more easily, according to leaked documents.

It had written a flaw into a random-number generator that would allow the agency to predict the outcome of the algorithm, the New York Times reported.

The agency had used its influence at a standards body to insert the backdoor, said the report.

The NSA had made no comment at the time of writing.

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