Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "revealing the features of the XZ backdoor" video.

  1. I think this is the modern variant of "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson.
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  2.  @timewave02012  See some papers from BADA55 team. For example, " How to manipulate curve standards: a white paper for the black hat" which describes how contants such as cos(1) (a transcendental number) result in non-random encryption. Sure, creating test data from values such as pi, e, cos(1), sqrt(2) is much better than having opaque random data but it's not automatically safe either.
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