Not to suggest anything, but imagine you are a secret service in a world in which the cat (knowledge about safe cryptograophic procedures) is out of the bag. Wo

Not to suggest anything, but imagine you are a secret service in a world in which the cat (knowledge about safe cryptograophic procedures) is out of the bag. Wouldn't a great strategy be to invent some sort of story why that old reliable crypto is now potentially unsafe, so you propose a new standard, that may or may not have a known weakness. And then some paranoid freaks come along that just use both.. Jikes. This is of course just me thinking loud here and pure speculation. We will probably never know for sure.