Deleted Account on Nostr: The idea people need to remember is: instead of (or in addition to) attacking the ...

The idea people need to remember is:
instead of (or in addition to) attacking the cipher itself, you attack or subvert the entropy source / PRNG that feeds keys into it. Once the generator is predictable to the attacker, the rest of the encryption collapses. Dual_EC_DRBG became the textbook public example after the Snowden leaks.