> alumni like Knuth To the best of my knowledge, Knuth never worked for the NSA. (He did briefly work for the IDA CRD -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut

> alumni like Knuth To the best of my knowledge, Knuth never worked for the NSA. (He did briefly work for the IDA CRD -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Defense_Analyses#Center_for_Communications_and_Computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Defense_Analyses... -- which in turn did some work for the NSA, but that's not the same thing.)