> Open source doesn't help here, if the flaw is in the algorithm or the seeds of it. Don't be so cynical about the intelligence of the smart cow. The smart cow

> Open source doesn't help here, if the flaw is in the algorithm or the seeds of it. Don't be so cynical about the intelligence of the smart cow. The smart cows were able to figure out that the elliptic curve proposed by NIST was backdoored by the NSA because it was basically choosing public keys to which the NSA had the private keys. The smart cows actually figured this out a long time ago, way before the Snowden leaks. So far, free access to the source has enabled us to find the holes.