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Re: Don't Use NSA-Influenced Code in Our Products, Security Company Warns
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Ephebus
on 21/09/2013, 16:36:56 UTC
Noone was saying Bitcoin is compromised by this. This is the Off-topic forum - description: "Other topics that might be of interest to bitcoiners" - and cryptography related news definitely fit that criteria.

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Major US security company warns over NSA link to encryption formula

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/21/rsa-emc-warning-encryption-system-nsa

"RSA, the security arm of EMC, sends email to customers over default random number generator which uses weak formula."