Report: NSA paid RSA to make flawed crypto algorithm the default – Ars Technica

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Security company RSA was paid $10 million to use the flawed Dual_EC_DRBG pseudorandom number generating algorithm as the default algorithm in its BSafe crypto library, according to sources speaking to Reuters.
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