NSA paid $10 million to the RSA to distribute its flawed formula.<\/p>\n
The US National Security Agency has secretly arranged a contract worth $10 million with RSA, one of the most influential corporations in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned. Documents disclosed by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor, show that the spy agency created and promulgated a flawed formula to generate random numbers in order to create a \u00c5\u201cback door\u201d in encryption products.<\/p>\n RSA received $10 million as the leading distributor of the formula through rolling it in a software tool known as BSafe, which is used to enhance security in personal computers as well as many other products.<\/p>\n The RSA undertook to set the formula as the preferred or default method for number generation in the BSafe software.<\/p>\n According to some security fillings, the sum, though might seem paltry, represented over a third of the revenue the relevant division at RSA earned during the entire previous year.<\/p>\n The contract was signed as a key part of the NSA\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s campaign to embed software that could crack into widely used computer products.<\/p>\n The revelation unveils only one way of several ways the NSA used to enhance surveillance through a systematic erosion of security tools.<\/p>\n Documents leaked by Snowden have brought to light top secret US government spying programs which collect phone records of all American citizens and track the use of US-based Web servers by all people around the world.<\/p>\n The documents also revealed that US spying activities even targeted leaders of some ally countries.<\/p>\n AT\/ISH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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