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Security Researcher canceled his speech at the RSA conference

The security researcher Mikko Hypponen canceled his speech at a security conference organized by RSA in San Francisco, in protest after Reuters, who reported that RSA had been getting money from NSA in exchange for his "teasing" BSAFE.

Mikko Hypponen

Recall that RSA is the distributor of a tool ς που είναι γνωστό σαν BSAFE και by software developers 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 a Reuters publication, the RSA took money "secretly" from the NSA to integrate the technology Dual EC DRBG (Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit ) in the BSAFE tool.

Η of cryptographic random numbers has been used as a standard since 2006 and exists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, according to 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.

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