Is the NSA really competent?

[Russell Nelson]

   crypto group, it looks like the NSA contribued to _none_ of 
   the major advances in cryptography that occured during its zenith.

Exactly.  It's not the NSA's job to contribute to major advances in
publicly-known cryptography.  In fact, you could probably even say
that it's their job to inhibit such advances...

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