"we continued to rely upon NIST as the arbiter of that discussion" This seems like a reasonable position to me, but I'm not in the field. Can someone tell me w

"we continued to rely upon NIST as the arbiter of that discussion" This seems like a reasonable position to me, but I'm not in the field. Can someone tell me why it's not reasonable, in the face of all sorts of theories and suspicions being thrown about, to rely on the leading standards body as to whether the algorithm is flawed?