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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Re:It's a very sad day by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-22 22:14 · Score: 0, Troll

3. How can an "additional" question be "begged"?
Re:It's a very sad day by paiute · 2013-12-22 23:29 · Score: 0, Troll

It also begs two additional questions
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