Talk:RSA Security

message: A dual-prime composite, can be looked at as a rectangle with prime numbers as sides, 'P' & 'Q'. Allow that P > Q, if we can discover the value of P - Q, then the finding the factors of the composite is just trivial algebra. The simplest method of discovering the value of P - Q.
This 25 digit dual-prime composite, illustrates my point, I constructed it with the help of my telephone directory and a pin and using the nearest prime integer. You may need Windows Calculator to follow the protocol. First enter the dual-prime composite:-
2,612,064,319,773,176,994,885,077
 
I will skip the explanation as to how we deduce that the ratio of the two primes, is about 137/207. The method involves an algorithm and a test of 'squareness'. We know if the two primes 'P' and 'Q' form a rectangle of given proportions, a similar much smaller rectangle with the same proportions, when multiplied together, the product is pseudo-square.
 
We know that:- 
(P + Q)^2 = 4(P x Q) + (P - Q)^2,
 
2612064319773176994885077 x (137 x 207) 
 
= 74075532044447526397945898643
 
The square root of that is:-
272168205425335.32015070563454555
 
So let's try 272168205425336...Nope!
Try again    272168205425337...Nope!
Try Again    272168205425338...EUREKA!
 
272168205425338 x 272168205425338
= 74075532044448985137492414244
 
And 74075532044448985137492414244 minus
74075532044447526397945898643 is equal to
 
1458739546515601
 
And the square root of that is exactly:-
38193449
 
272168205425338 - 38193449 = 272168167231889
272168167231889 / 137 = 1986628957897
2612064319773176994885077 / 1986628957897 = 1314822432941
1314822432941 & 1986628957897 The two prime factors.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Alastair Carnegie (talk • contribs) 20:07, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This is well known as Fermat's factorization method. The method only works when P and Q have a small difference. For factoring RSA moduli it is therefore not suitable. Other methods such as the Number field sieve are much faster for breaking RSA keys. Btw, this discussion would be more suitable on Talk:RSA (i.e. the page discussing the algorithm) and not here (i.e. the page discussing the company that owned the RSA patent.) 92.106.113.28 (talk) 07:03, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factorization of Dual-Prime Composite Integers 

message: Could someone please check this edit:  and explain why company URL and blog URL in the External Links section is treated as self promotion. Many other company pages have their company and blog URL in the external links. Please clarify. -- Countableinfinity (talk) 13:38, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why are the external links removed? 

message: This company knows a lot about individuals and there should be a way to opt out of these databases. I have learned some of the thinks this company knows about be by using etrade which uses them. Does any one know how to find out exactly what they know about someone. Something like a credit report. 98.197.243.41 04:33, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Data mining

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:RSA EMC logo highres.jpg

message: Interesting: http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/cryptofud/openssl/msg00090.html Details the establishment of RSA Australia to avoid US crypto export laws. Could be detailed on the wiki page...
Scuba (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 03:50, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: RSA Australia

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thread_title:  Blacklisted Links Found on the Main Page 

message: Currently in the article RSA is listed being "an American computer and network security company". How about we drop the security from this definition, as the company surely isn't about security at all? (Ref. December 20, 2013 backdoor for 10M$.) Usv (talk) 00:03, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I know this comment is ironic and/or sarcastic, but it raises a question I've had.  How confident are we of the $10m figure cited by Reuters?  They don't give their source; in particular, they don't attribute it to the Snowden leak compendium.  Should we require more of a citation than a single unidentified source before including it in the article? Scryer (talk) 19:06, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair point. I have at least reverted "revealed" to the less credulous "reported". PRRfan (talk) 05:29, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:   Security company? 

message: I have posted this at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents:
:Two anonymous editors have deleted sections of the article RSA Security pertaining to news reports that the company knowingly sold software containing a NSA backdoor. They were made via IP addresses belonging to EMC, the parent company of RSA:
:*Edit 1 and Edit 2 by 128.221.224.61
:* Edit 3 by 128.221.224.62
:These edits removed well-cited material; the editor(s) left change notices but declined to explain the deletions at the article's Talk page. It appears, therefore, that someone at EMC is trying to delete text deemed unfavorable to the company. PRRfan (talk) 17:59, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion of material from IP addresses owned by RSA parent company

message: While reading I kept looking for the "why" of it, i.e. Why did the NSA put so much effort into promoting a flawed method of encryption that would never be used by anyone that knew anything about encryption.  I think it would be helpful to include some ideas of "why" into this excellenct, well-written article, and I'd like to offer one that occurred to me.  Last week, while watching a crime show, they were looking for a serial murderer in a small town, and the FBI announced that at the town's big meeting, they would have FBI "profilers" there to analyze the body language of all the people attending the meeting, as the murderer would be incapable of hiding their guilt in such a pressurized situation.  The FBI then compiled a list of all the people that did not attend the meeting and used that as a starting point in their investigation.
Connecting these two ideas, that the NSA delibarately promoted a flawed encryption standard with the idera that "guilty" people will behave differently than "innocent" people, it occurs to me that the entirety of this NSA effort may have been to promote a flawed encryption standard to "the masses" who would never use or need one, so that they could narrow their pool of "suspects" to only those that were willing to put extra effort into hiding their "suspicious" activities.  Meaning that the NSA isn't dabbling in ecryption here, they are doing PsyOps; getting suspect people to self-declare and denying them the ability to hide themselves inside the mass of people that have no need for, and do not use effective encryption.  Thought I'd throw this into the mix, in case it's useful, and there are sources that might support the idea's possible, future inclusion.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.25.171.16 (talk) 15:06, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Why of It 

message: It isn't clear that this company is independently notable; it also has a cleanup tag since 2012 and is somewhat promotional in nature.  Since its products are now apparently part of RSA Security, perhaps the content should be merged there. FalconK (talk) 08:22, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Opposing: arguments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Netwitness present arguments for independent notability. Klbrain (talk) 07:20, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Netwitness]] 

message: The "Products" section might include content from upstream marketing materials/personnel, thus I've added the "Advert" template.
Notice the rather non-descript buzzwords coupled with title-cased words. For example:
"The solution provides Visibility of who has access to what within an organization and manages that access with various capabilities such as Access Review, Request and Provisioning"
"The Platform allows users to adapt solutions to their requirements, build new applications, and integrate with external systems without touching a single line of code."
--Rihards Olups (talk) 15:49, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marketing speak