Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA

Lasrick writes "As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned." Asks an anonymous reader: "If the NIST curves really are broken (as has been suggested for years), then most SSL connections might be too, amirite?"

Re:RSA sold you out

[MichaelSmith]

NSA has customers? Surely not the voters.

Re:RSA sold you out

[Nerdfest]

NSA has customers?

Not any more.

Re:That's a tiny number

[PopeRatzo]

If you can't trust a Cub Scout, who can you trust?

I trust the Cub Scouts completely.

Hell, I buy my weed from one.