RSA Chairman: NSA Work Is Public Record

Art Coviello calls for global intelligence community reforms, says RSAs work with NSA was never secret.

RSA CONFERENCE 2014 -- San Francisco -- RSA Security executive chairman Art Coviello, in his keynote address at the annual RSA Conference Tuesday, addressed publicly for the first time the security companys relationship with the National Security Agency (NSA), which he said mainly has entailed working with NSAs Information Assurance Directorate (IAD), the cyberdefense arm of the agency.
Coviello stopped short of specifically addressing details of the December
Reuters report
that the NSA in 2006 had paid RSA $10 million in a secret contract to use the Dual EC DRBG random-number generator algorithm in its Bsafe software in order to facilitate the NSAs spying programs. The encryption algorithm reportedly was one that the NSA was able to crack.
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RSA Conference 2014: Complete Coverage
.]
Weve been doing business with the NSA for a long time. Its a matter of public record, Coviello said in an interview with Dark Reading after his keynote. We have worked with the IAD on the defense side of the house. My purpose in the speech was to really get us past the NSA issue and the raise the level of the dialogue.
In a Dec. 22
blog post
responsing to allegations of an NSA secret contract, RSA dismissed reports that it had a secret pact with the NSA, stating that we have never entered into any contract or engaged in any project with the intention of weakening RSAs products, or introducing potential backdoors into our products for anyones use.
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