The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced to abandon the controversialbetter known as Dual_EC_DRBG in the wake of allegations that the National Security Agency. received $10 million bribe from NSA under a secret contract to implement their flawed cryptographic algorithm Dual.EC_DBG in its bSafe Security tool as the default protocol in its products for keeping Encryption Weak. But it didn’t remove it from its random number generator recommendations so that researchers could further examine the encryption standard and its overall strength.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/04/nist-removes-dualecdrbg-random-number.html