@rsalz @darkuncle NSA has a huge budget to "covertly influence and/or overtly leverage" cryptographic designs: https://www.eff.org/files/2014/04/09/20130905-guard-sigint_enabling.pdf NSA _paying_ the RSA company to put Dual EC into RSA's BSafe library (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220/) is an example of overt leverage towards the RSA company, and of covert influence for the public not knowing about this. Same for NSA _paying_ companies to put non-hybrids into products. Do you dispute these examples of covert influence and/or overt leverage? If so, why?