Comment Re:right from the white paper (Score 2) 195
If law enforcement officers successfully beg a judge, they can order any person or company to do anything they want (like spying on you, becoming an agent of the state). It's as simple as that. Do -not- trust anyone. If they have been subverted, you will not know until it is too late...Ladar Levison wanted nothing but to maintain Lavabit -- his own business predicated on security/secrecy (when it came out that he handed over SSL keys to authorities, no matter the reason, his business would crumble). The (federal) state compelled its demise under threat of -perpetual- imprisonment and fine, and so it fell.
Having said all that, even a non-NIST entity cannot be trusted. If a non-NIST crypto protocol contains any weaknesses, whether intentional or not, assuredly the NSA will obtain or discover it.