Claim

RSA ASSOCIATED_WITH weak random number generator

A Reuters report indicated that the NSA might have paid RSA to incorporate weak random number generators into security products; Nicole says what happened remains unclear.

Episode
EP 98 — Zero Day Brokers
Origin
Uncertain
Confidence
89% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Nicole Perlroth
Attributed source
Joe Menn at Reuters

Transcript evidence

“it appeared that the NSA might have actually been paying RSA to bake these weak number generators into some of their security products”

Nicole Perlroth · offsets 41904–42038

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T07:12:15.684596+00:00

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