Final paragraph: > When I heard about this draft I assumed that NIST had engaged in (1) an honest retrospective review of known security flaws in NIST standard

Final paragraph: > When I heard about this draft I assumed that NIST had engaged in (1) an honest retrospective review of known security flaws in NIST standards and (2) an honest analysis of ways in which those flaws could have been avoided by modifications in NIST's standardization process. The current draft is, unfortunately, very far from this, and as a result is very difficult to take seriously.