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Re: [Cryptography] What do we know? (Was 'We cannot trust' ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Mon Dec 23 10:29:52 2013
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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:00:56 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 2013-12-22 15:05, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> Nothing I've seen so far describes what the $10M actually paid for.
> So nothing is inconsistent with the possibility that what RSA saw
> was a $10M contract to provide BSAFE to some government agency -
But what RSA did was provide backdoored BSAFE to everyone, not just one
government agency.
"Here is ten million dollars to make *other* people use our algorithm"
"That is the algorithm that various noted cryptographers say smells
mighty funny?
"That is the one"
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