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NSA and IETF: Fairness


cret NSA documents showed that NSA pushed DES in the 1970s to "drive out competitors" while knowing that DES was "weak enough" to break; meanwhile NSA publicly claimed that it would use DES. NSA used export-law exceptions in the 1990s to entrench RC4 and RSA-512, causing security problems for decades.

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