NSA Infiltrated RSA Deeper Than Imagined

[DamianTV]

http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/03/31/1459259/nsa-infiltrated-rsa-deeper-than-imagined


"Reuters is reporting that the U.S. National Security Agency managed to have security firm RSA adopt not just one, but two security tools, further facilitating NSA eavesdropping on Internet communications. The newly discovered software is dubbed 'Extended Random', and is intended to facilitate the use of the already known 'Dual Elliptic Curve' encryption software's back door. Researchers from several U.S. universities discovered Extended Random and assert it could help crack Dual Elliptic Curve encrypted communications 'tens of thousands of times faster'."

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It wouldnt suprise me much if the NSA threatened to reveal to the world if the head of RSA was into "furries"...

[idiom]

This is the stuff Rand should be attacking. Forget the privacy stuff.

People should be going to jail for this. It is politically unopposable if it was brought up.

Who is going to defend letting Russians and Chinese steal American defense secrets?

Rand could run a huge giant show trial over this. Blast the Obama administration for every subpoena and discovery that is blocked. Impeach for obstruction.

This is Americas security at stake. There isn't anyone in Congress who will stand up for the infiltration of our defenses by the Russians. Its political suicide.

Obama will obstruct to try and stop discovery of other things, but its an undefended endzone. All Rand has to do is run it in.

[Natural Citizen]

This is the stuff Rand should be attacking. Forget the privacy stuff.

People should be going to jail for this. It is politically unopposable if it was brought up.

Who is going to defend letting Russians and Chinese steal American defense secrets?

Rand could run a huge giant show trial over this. Blast the Obama administration for every subpoena and discovery that is blocked. Impeach for obstruction.

This is Americas security at stake. There isn't anyone in Congress who will stand up for the infiltration of our defenses by the Russians. Its political suicide.

Obama will obstruct to try and stop discovery of other things, but its an undefended endzone. All Rand has to do is run it in.

It's a tricky road because the bulk of the spying by intelligence agencies has been directed toward the International finance clearing of these countries. Reserves are no longer the fruits of the strongest navy as has always historically been the case. This is economic "space" war. And Rand's recent position on Russian sanctions gives the impression that he supports this but he seems to be concentrating on domestic terms of controversy in a way that removes that from scrutiny while towing the line of the neocon oligarchs who rely upon the practice. Now in the short term that may be viewed as a gain but in scope they'll all get burned. Russia is already doing internal finance clearing within their own network after the skullduggery with western credit card companies and are on course with a deal with China regarding the gas pipeline and then we see other BRICSA nations jumping in in various aspects that carry even more critical backlash.

Oh, yes. It's quite a tangled web some weave, for sure. And I'll tell you this...all of the staffers running around yapping about "the game" and how "politics" is played? Well..they need to put the checkers away because you don't bring checkers to a 4-D Chess Game.

What is interesting, though, is the use of language all of a sudden regarding "cyber-security". And it certainly isn't a coincidence that all of a sudden the U.S. wants to up it ten fold or whatever it was they were saying. All this really is an extension of the same economic spying at a time when specific countries are on a path to ditch the dollar. Sure, we can call it "cyber-security" in a manner that sells it like everything else that gets the "national security" label but this is infighting from within the power structure.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Of COurse the NSA did... we exposed RSA and who was involved.

When EMC, NetApp, IBM, and the rest of the storage/server/cluster/cloud makers... all stayed quiet, you know they were all involved.

We have a nice thread covering it... Businesses should dump their products/leases immediately.

[alucard13mm]

http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/218923/83980114.jpg

[MRK]

There's a thread about it on HN if you want to see a technical discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7501212