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$10Mi? That's a very cheap price for trashing your companies reputation.

More importantly, it confirms that DRBD is backdoored or at least weak enough to be subverted.




"it represented more than a third of the revenue that the relevant division at RSA had taken in during the entire previous year"


> DRBD

You mean DRBG [1], right? I hope DRBD [2] isn't backdoored.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Replicated_Block_De...


I think Dr. Evil was at the bargaining table


a better price than "do it or we will destroy you".




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