Just an example of how to spend $250M. Jared Hunter <feralch...@gmail.com> wrote: >New to the list, so I'm sorry if I missed it, but what was the evidence >presented that RSA took a $10M payoff to make Dual EC DRBG the default >in Crypto-C? > >Thanks, > >-Jared > >> On Sep 22, 2013, at 9:01 AM, Peter Gutmann ><pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote: >> >> ianG <i...@iang.org> writes: >> >>> One mystery is left for me. Why so much? It clearly doesn't cost >that much >>> money to implement the DRBG, or if it did, I would have done it for >$5m, >>> honest injun! Nor would it cost that to test it nor to deploy it on >mass. >>> Documentation, etc. >> >> You're assuming that someone got passed a suitcase full of cash and >that was >> it. Far more likely that RSA got a $10M contract for some government >work and >> at some point that included a request to make the ECDRBG the default >for >> <insert plausible-sounding reason here>. All quite above board, >nothing >> terribly suspicious to raise eyebrows. >> >> Peter. >> _______________________________________________ >> cryptography mailing list >> cryptography@randombit.net >> http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography >_______________________________________________ >cryptography mailing list >cryptography@randombit.net >http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
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