The security researcher Mikko Hypponen canceled his speech to congress for security organized by RSA in San Francisco, in protest after Reuters reported that RSA had taken money from NSA in exchange for his "teasing" BSAFE.
Να υπενθυμίσουμε ότι η RSA είναι ο διανομέας ενός εργαλείου κρυπτογράφησης που είναι γνωστό σαν BSAFE και χρησιμοποιείται από προγραμματιστές software for security improvements to their products.
In one open letter posted on Monday to recipient Joseph M. Tucci, EMC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of EMC RSA, Hypponen, who is in charge of investigating the Finnish security company F-Secure, stated that he will not attend the conference. According to the Reuters publication, RSA took money "undercover" from the NSA to integrate it technology Dual ECDBG (Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator) in the BSAFE tool.
The random number encryption generator is used as a template by 2006 and is available at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, according to press reports.
Η RSA of course denied the existence of a secret contract with the NSA. "We decided to use it Dual EC DRBG at BSAFE in 2004, as part of the development of newer and more powerful encryption methods. "At that time, the NSA was credible and did not try to weaken the encryption," she said in a statement on Sunday.
