Security firm RSA has signed a $10 million contract with the National Security Agency to maintain a flawed encryption mechanism in its BSAFE product to facilitate NSA surveillance. Reuters agency was the first to reveal the uncomfortable truth based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden have confirmed the existence of backdoor in some technologies RSA. The RSA has denied the accusation about any secret partnership with the NSA publishing an exhaustive blog post to respond to media claims. The strange thing is why RSA is continuing to use the flawed algorithm till 2013 as a default algorithm in its product.”]
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