You are reading too much into cududa’s comment and mine, quite a bit of things neither of us said. Cududa mentioned Microsoft let the NSA review it - that it w

You are reading too much into cududa’s comment and mine, quite a bit of things neither of us said. Cududa mentioned Microsoft let the NSA review it - that it was procedure, not that it was law. Furthermore, no one claimed that NSA recommendations or replacement DLLs had to be used by law - though that makes little difference. I mentioned that this would be in line with well known history of DES development. That’s basically all we said about it. I have no idea what you are referring to with the Clipper chip. But RSA, NIST and others were definitely aware they were peddling NSA recommendations With the dual-drbg fiasco.