http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-25492461"The Reuters report said the NSA paid RSA $10m (£6.1m) to use a random number generator that has since been discovered to open a backdoor into any software in which it was used.
Documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden have confirmed the existence of backdoors in some technologies RSA, and other firms, used in their products."
if the government paid private companies to weaken encryption, then how safe is the shit they have developed themselves...
LIKE SHA-256 (bitcoin)!!!