The National Security Agency of USA (NSA) allegedly has paid (under the table of course) 10 million 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 first reported based on documents leaked by the Edward Snowden that the NSA has created a flawed recipe for generating random numbers that essentially allows backdoors in 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 generating "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."
