Well, when some of this "research" you promote ends up being backdoors planted by NSA (http://reut.rs/192XWwG http://reut.rs/192XWwG), one has to be cautious.

Well, when some of this "research" you promote ends up being backdoors planted by NSA (http://reut.rs/192XWwG http://reut.rs/192XWwG), one has to be cautious. Personally, I am more comfortable with 70s algorithms like Diffie-Hellman that have known and well-researched weaknesses. The "modern" algorithms actively promoted by US security firms after 9/11 are not time-tested, to say the least.