On 2013-09-22 23:01, Peter Gutmann wrote:
You're assuming that someone got passed a suitcase full of cash and that was it. Far more likely that RSA got a $10M contract for some government work and at some point that included a request to make the ECDRBG the default for <insert plausible-sounding reason here>. All quite above board, nothing terribly suspicious to raise eyebrows.
Possibly, but security agencies do tend to use the suitcase full of cash gambit, not to mention the "we know where your children live" gambit. This, however, because done in secret, tends to be even more wasteful and expensive that the supposedly above ground government contract.
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