NSA SSL Backdoors - are they real, how to avoid?

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Journal GargamelSpaceman's Journal: NSA SSL Backdoors - are they real, how to avoid?

Journal by GargamelSpaceman on Friday September 06, 2013 @11:23AM

What do people think of this?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/162984271/SSL-Locksmith

this
http://www.zdnet.com/has-the-nsa-broken-ssl-tls-aes-7000020312/

and this sort of thing:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_sto.html

With this last one, is it enough or even possible to disable this random number generator on my own machine, or will talking to someone via ssl who uses this generator render my communication compromised? Also the first link talks about forging certificates? WTF?

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