http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/security-it/nsas-penetration-of-rsa-security-was-twopronged-researchers-20140331-zqp6o.html
Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA), greatly increasing the spy agency's ability to eavesdrop on some internet communications, according to researchers. In December it was reported the NSA had paid RSA $US10 million ($10,800,000) to make a now-discredited cryptography system the default in software used by a wide range of internet and computer security programs. The system, called Dual Elliptic Curve, was a random-number generator, but it had a deliberate flaw or "back door" that allowed the NSA to crack the encryption. A group of professors from Johns Hopkins, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois and elsewhere now say they have discovered that a second NSA tool exacerbated the RSA software's vulnerability. [snip - more at the link] _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
