RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 22, 2013 @07:01PM from the problem-with-denials dept.

The Register reports that RSA isn't taking quietly the accusation reported by Reuters, based on documents released by Edward Snowden, that the company intentionally used weaker crypto at the request of the NSA, and accepted $10 million in exchange for doing so. RSA's defends the use of the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator, stating categorically "that we have never entered into any contract or engaged in any project with the intention of weakening RSA's products, or introducing potential 'backdoors' into our products for anyone's use."

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Yeah, right by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-22 19:05 · Score: 5, Funny

Tell it to 60 Minutes.
1. Re:Yeah, right by game+kid · 2013-12-22 20:40 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I can imagine Samuel L. Jackson popping out of nowhere to tell RSA, "Yes you did! YES YOU DID." Actually I kinda wish that happened.
  
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Re:I don't trust anyone by PopeRatzo · 2013-12-23 00:37 · Score: 5, Funny

"Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence".
In this case, I think it's more adequately explained by $10million.

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