mrsaint on NIST removes Dual_EC_DRBG

Well, given for how long Dual_EC_DRBG has been under suspicion, one cannot congratulate NIST for a proactive stance on security. For what it's worth, just go to this page on the NIST homepage:

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/examples.html

And it still says:

  Random Number Generation
  [...]

  - Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators
  [...]

  - Dual_EC_DRBG (link)
  [...]
  
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Time for an update or what?

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