Barr and others like him have been saying this stuff for decades. Showing them the math has limited utility. Geeks have been doing that for decades too, with li

Barr and others like him have been saying this stuff for decades. Showing them the math has limited utility. Geeks have been doing that for decades too, with limited results. Barr and his predecessors don't read math, they wouldn't understand it if they did, and even if they understood it, they would demand backdoors anyway. Barr in particular has already demonstrated that national security and our economy are less important to him than increased power. It's probably true of all these government people making all these false claims about cryptography since the mid 1990s, but it's demonstrably true of Barr. (The Trump coverup he's currently attempting is not even his first coverup as Attorney General. He did similar work for a previous administration.)