RSA is owned by private equity so there's nothing to short. In any case, the patent on RSA is long-expired and OpenSSL drove the price of crypto libraries to $0

RSA is owned by private equity so there's nothing to short. In any case, the patent on RSA is long-expired and OpenSSL drove the price of crypto libraries to $0, so any revenue RSA the company gets from RSA the cryptosystem is negligible.