RSA Security

RSA Security Inc. is a company specializing in IT security division of EMC Corporation headquartered in Bedford in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and has offices in Ireland, UK, Singapore, India and Japan.

RSA organizes the RSA Conference, an annual event dedicated to IT security. The most famous products of the company are the cryptography program library BSafe RSA and SecurID authentication system.

The company was named after its three founders, Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, who invented also the algorithm is the RSA cryptosystem based.

History

Rivest, Shamir and Adleman founded RSA Security Inc. in 1982 as RSA Data Security. In April 1996, the company Security Dynamics Technologies Inc. acquired for USD 251 million, the company RSA Data Security by its three founders. 1999, the two companies announced their first joint product line called Keon and Security Dynamics changed its name to RSA Securities Inc.

In mid-2006 it was announced that EMC Corporation, RSA Security would take over 2.1 billion U.S. dollars. This acquisition was completed in September 2006.

On December 20, 2013 Reuters announced based on the findings from the Snowden documents that the RSA Security Inc. $ 10,000,000 have accepted by the NSA for the establishment of a crypto backdoor. Even before the NSA had the effect exerted influence at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST ) that the RSA was subsequently implemented controversial random number generator for Standard explains for crypto applications ( Dual_EC_DRBG standard). In addition to this an extension to random websites called Extended Random implemented by RSA Security Inc., which allows the breaking of the random generator can still be significantly accelerated.