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Security Researcher canceled his speech at the RSA conference

The security researcher Mikko Hypponen canceled his speech to for security organized by RSA in San Francisco, in protest after Reuters reported that RSA had taken money from NSA με αντάλλαγμα το "πείραγμα" του BSAFE.

Mikko Hypponen

Recall that RSA is the divisor of one encryption key known as BSAFE and used by software developers for security enhancements in 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 the Finnish security company F-Secure, δήλωσε ότι δεν θα παραβρεθεί στο συνέδριο. Σύμφωνα με τη δημοσίευση του Reuters η RSA πήρε χρήματα "κρυφά" από την NSA για να ενσωματώσει την τεχνολογία Dual EC DRBG (Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit ) 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 φυσικά αρνήθηκε την ύπαρξη μυστικού συμβολαίου με την NSA. "Πήραμε την απόφαση να χρησιμοποιήσουμε το Dual EC DRBG στο BSAFE το 2004, στο πλαίσιο ανάπτυξης νεότερων και ισχυρότερων μεθόδων κρυπτογράφησης. Εκείνη την εποχή, η NSA ήταν αξιόπιστη και δεν προσπαθούσε να εξασθενίσει τη κρυπτογράφηση", ανέφερε σε δήλωσή της την Κυριακή.

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