[Cryptography] What do we know? (Was 'We cannot trust' ...)

[James A. Donald]

On 2013-12-22 15:05, Jerry Leichter wrote:
 > Nothing I've seen so far describes what the $10M actually paid for.
 > So nothing is inconsistent with the possibility that what RSA saw
 > was a $10M contract to provide BSAFE to some government agency -


But what RSA did was provide backdoored BSAFE to everyone, not just one 
government agency.

"Here is ten million dollars to make *other* people use our algorithm"

"That is the algorithm that various noted cryptographers say smells
mighty funny?

"That is the one"