http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/08/rsa_conference_boycott/ By John Leyden The Register 8th January 2014 More security researchers are boycotting next month’s US edition of the RSA Conference in protest against an alleged “secret deal” the company is said to have struck with the National Security Agency. Last month Reuters reported that the NSA “secretly paid” RSA Security $10m in return for making the Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator algorithm the default option in its BSAFE cryptographic toolkit. The news came from documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the news agency reported. In response, RSA issued a carefully worded denial that it had never knowingly put a backdoor in its BSAFE toolkit at the behest of the NSA or anyone else. […]