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RSA Warns Customers Off Suspected NSA-Tainted Crypto Tools

2013-09-21 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld

Security firm RSA has advised its customers not to use its BSafe security software products. This follows an announcement issued by NIST not to use a security standard it designed and published. The standard is the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator. The Dual_EC_DRBG is believed to contain an NSA backdoor that would in essence nullify the standard's security.

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