Only if it doesn't make their own work any harder. NSA prefer weak security for everyone if securing US assets might risk others to be more secure too: >NIST f

Only if it doesn't make their own work any harder. NSA prefer weak security for everyone if securing US assets might risk others to be more secure too: >NIST failed to exercise independent judgment but instead deferred extensively to NSA. After DUAL_EC was proposed, two major red flags emerged. Either one should have caused NIST to remove DUAL_EC from the standard, but in both cases NIST deferred to NSA requests to keep DUAL_EC" https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2017/05/09/VCAT-Report-on-NIST-Cryptographic-Standards-and-Guidelines-Process.pdf https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2017/05/09/VCAT-... [PDF warning]