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A reminder, RSA (the cryptosystem) is not a product of RSA (the security company); the cryptosystem predates the company by a decade and was also independently invented by a GCHQ researcher a few years before, but it remained classified there.

The only thing they really have in common is that the founders of RSA (the company) were the public inventors of RSA (the cryptosystem). The company didn't get into bed with the NSA until the turn of the century.

It's not even true that the RSA authors were the founders of the company we know as RSA. The RSA founders company was acquired by Security Dynamics in the mid-1990s, which then took over the name.

> The company didn't get into bed with the NSA until the turn of the century

You don't know what you don't know.

Specifically, the algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG .

But, that's the only time NSA has ever done something like that, right? Right?!

While true, it is completely unrelated in this context.

There is no evidence that it was backdoored. You should not talk as if it was a fact, when it's pure speculation.

There is however plenty of evidence the NSA does indeed purposefully backdoor and weaken encryption. Clipper Chip, the Bullrun project, etc.