In contrast to the cooperative preparations required for setting up private key encryption, such as secret-sharing and close coordination between sender and receiver ...

RSA encryption is a major foundation of digital security and is one of the most commonly used forms of encryption, and yet it operates on a brilliantly simple premise: it's easy to multiply two large ...

The RSA agreed to incorporate a flawed encryption formula into a widely used security product in accordance with a secret $10 million NSA contract. The RSA Conference, the world’s largest computer ...

As the people of this country, and much of the world, observe the year-end holidays, we can look back on 2013 as the year when any illusion of genuine democracy was dashed by the remarkable ...

Report: NSA Paid RSA $10M to Create 'Back Door' in Encryption Software The National Security Agency allegedly paid the security software provider RSA $10 million to give the NSA access to data ...

Editor’s note: This article originally published 12-22-13, but was updated 12-23-13 with RSA’s comments. The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) paid $10 million to vendor RSA in a “secret” deal to ...

Reuters reports that the NSA paid massive computer security firm RSA $10 million to promote a flawed encryption system so that the surveillance organization could wiggle its way around security. In ...