NSA infiltrated RSA security more deeply than thought: study

[hootinholler]

3. But nobody uses RSA!

We've known it's crackable for years!



That's what I've heard around here when I mentioned there was now proof of the NSA jacking encryption.

I have to wonder what other forms of encryption the NSA has 'helped'? Well to be specific, this is methods of random number generation they have helped. If the numbers assumed random in your encryption software aren't quite random, then that bias can be used to crack the encryption.

I'm also waiting for the news that they found a way to encode enough information about the private key when a public/private pair are generated, into the public key. If you could deduce the private key from the public one, then everything encoded with it is obviously compromised.