> I would very clearly draw the line at the point where the NSA is deliberately weakening national security by undermining widely used cryptography There was n

> I would very clearly draw the line at the point where the NSA is deliberately weakening national security by undermining widely used cryptography There was no "threat to national security" here. Unlike what we think of as a normal backdoor, this one is and remains completely in NSA's control, as long as they're the only ones with the private key underlying the Dual EC constants. So even knowing there's a backdoor in there somewhere, there's no way for other security agencies or hackers to break Dual EC (assuming, of course, that it's properly implemented, which is not a given, and NSA's changes may have made it harder to implement).