This is yet another instance where more transparency on the NIST/NSA side would have been beneficial in the long run. If they said from the start, "here are the

This is yet another instance where more transparency on the NIST/NSA side would have been beneficial in the long run. If they said from the start, "here are the seeds, we generated them by computing SHA1(insert_solinas_string_here)" the whole debate would have never started in the first place.