> * NSA employees participted throughout, and occupied leadership roles
> in the committee and among the editors of the documents
> Slam dunk. If the NSA had wanted it, they would have designed it themselves.
> The only
> conclusion for their presence that is rational is to sabotage it [3].
No. One mission of the NSA is to protect US government secrets. Since the
government can no longer afford to specify their own security products all the
time (or rather that the computer market has become commoditized), the NSA has
an interest in making standard COTS products be secure.
I do not know if the NSA worked to subvert IETF specifications, but
participation isn't proof of it.
/r$
"Flaming Carrot!... Do
you see Communists behind
every bush?"
"No... but SOMETIMES they
hide there."
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Akamai Technology
Cambridge, MA
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