The National Security Agency of USA (NSA) is said to have paid (under the table of course) 10 millions dollars to one of the largest and most important security companies RSA, to weaken its algorithm to facilitate decryption, according to an exclusive Reuters publication.
In September, the New York Times reported for the first time on the basis of documents leaked by Edward Snowden that the NSA has created a wrong recipe for random number creation that essentially allows backdoors in the encryption software.
Reuters later reported that RSA is the distributor of an encryption tool known as BSAFE and is used by software developers to improve product security.
Today, Reuters reports, citing two different sources, that RSA had received money in exchange for building BSAFE which includes the NSA formula and is used as the default method for partreatment "random" encryption numbers.
In a statement to Reuters, the RSA (of course) denied the allegations, saying: "The RSA always acts in the best interests of its customers and in no way designs or activates backdoors on products."
