So, There Always Was A Backdoor...Suspicions/Conspiracy Theories Confirmed

[rat]

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)!!!

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[Pente]

From article:

The random number generator, known as the "Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator" (Dual EC DRBG), became a standard part of some RSA products in 2004.

Old news.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

[MrWDunne]

Not to mention SHA is publicly available in terms of how it works. A lot of people have verified it.

The form of RSA that was broken was so underused that it was broken in openssl from a bug and no one noticed. By broken I mean it literally did not work.

[waldox]

i love it when NSA spies on my android phone calls and text messages, hotmail/gmail email, and banking info...