Ars Technica

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

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 ...
The Verge

NSA paid $10 million to put its backdoor in RSA encryption, according to Reuters report

When leaked documents claimed to have caught the NSA inserting bad protocols into the national standards board NIST, it raised more questions than answers. Why would the NSA go to the trouble of ...