> The the implications of the post by J.P. are entirely correct; but the
> post itself is---I don't mean this pejoratively---a little naif.

Naivety is intended to caricature the point :)

> The NSA cannot be expected to advocate the use of an encryption scheme
> that it has not already broken, and this behavior does not seem to me
> to be villainous.  Why should it act against its interests?

Because of the constitution? (naivety again;)

Would just like to add what I've heared from several sources:
Crypto is mostly solid, but implementations are weak.

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