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Dual-ec-drbg is short for Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator; a pseudorandom number generator based on the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem.
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Can the backdoor in Dual_EC_DRBG be used to create a public key stream cipher?
Dual_EC_DRBG has the property that if $Q = e\cdot P$, someone who knows $e$ can break the PRNG.
This seems to lead to a public-key stream cipher:
Alice chooses a random $P, e$, where $P$ is a gener …