Infosec experts boycott RSA conflab over alleged 'secret' NSA contract

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/08/rsa_conference_boycott/

By John Leyden
The Register
8th January 2014

More security researchers are boycotting next month's US edition of the 
RSA Conference in protest against an alleged "secret deal" the company is 
said to have struck with the National Security Agency.

Last month Reuters reported that the NSA "secretly paid" RSA Security $10m 
in return for making the Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator algorithm 
the default option in its BSAFE cryptographic toolkit.

The news came from documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward 
Snowden, the news agency reported.

In response, RSA issued a carefully worded denial that it had never 
knowingly put a backdoor in its BSAFE toolkit at the behest of the NSA or 
anyone else.

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