If you read through the thread, it becomes clear that mental illness is a factor here. With so many such cases over the years, it's as though cryptography has i

If you read through the thread, it becomes clear that mental illness is a factor here. With so many such cases over the years, it's as though cryptography has its own flavor of Jerusalem Syndrome. It's such a magnet for this. The overconfidence of some of these people is really impressive. Plot twist: while being wrong about almost everything technically, perhaps he's right about the NSA wanting the conversation confined to a small, well understood set of algorithms. But still, ugh, no thank you to what he's offering.