RSA complicity or not in the EC_DBRG backdoor (Re: Human scum: Jim Bidzous of RSA)

[Adam Back]

Ask Gwen he wrote the OP.  

My response was about the potential complicity not the personnel.  

The bit you quoted that I wrote was me putting a ps to point out that Gwen
mispelt his name (and I saw you wrote Bidzous also below - again I believe
its Bidzos).

Adam

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 01:14:36PM -0500, Tom Ritter wrote:
>On 21 December 2013 06:13, Adam Back <adam at cypherspace.org> wrote:
>> ps I think its Bidzos.
>
>
>I'm confused, but maybe missing something?  The article says:
>
>'''
>The stakes rose when more technology companies adopted RSA's methods
>and Internet use began to soar. The Clinton administration embraced
>the Clipper Chip, envisioned as a mandatory component in phones and
>computers to enable officials to overcome encryption with a warrant.
>
>RSA led a fierce public campaign against the effort, distributing
>posters with a foundering sailing ship and the words "Sink Clipper!"
>
>A key argument against the chip was that overseas buyers would shun
>U.S. technology products if they were ready-made for spying. Some
>companies say that is just what has happened in the wake of the
>Snowden disclosures.
>
>The White House abandoned the Clipper Chip and instead relied on
>export controls to prevent the best cryptography from crossing U.S.
>borders. RSA once again rallied the industry, and it set up an
>Australian division that could ship what it wanted.
>
>"We became the tip of the spear, so to speak, in this fight against
>government efforts," Bidzos recalled in an oral history.
>'''
>
>'''
>RSA, meanwhile, was changing. Bidzos stepped down as CEO in 1999 to
>concentrate on VeriSign, a security certificate company that had been
>spun out of RSA. The elite lab Bidzos had founded in Silicon Valley
>moved east to Massachusetts, and many top engineers left the company,
>several former employees said.
>'''
>
>It seems like Bidzous was out of RSA long before DUAL EC PRNG was even
>proposed, and was in fact campaigning and strategizing against RSA
>while he was there.  Where are references to other accusations or
>behavior?
>
>-tom