Daniel Bernstein, the defendant in the landmark lawsuit that legalized cryptography (over howls of protest from the NSA) engages in a thought-experiment about how the NSA might be secretly undermining crypto through sabotage projects like BULLRUN/EDGEHILL.
Making sure
crypto stays insecure [PDF/Daniel J Bernstein]
(via O'Reilly Radar)
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