Let's be real: We all know by now that AES is backdoored by the NSA, right?

10 million but rest is right

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You just described common core.

So much garbage in one post, the post.

That's what all stream ciphers do retard. Are you implying that you can't make a provably secure cryptographic primitive?

You do realize that you can craft an encryption algorithm in such way that there exist a specific action you can perform on its output that can reveal its input? Put into it such step that appears to increase security or don't do anything particular about it, but enables some obscure attack to be carried out, by design?

I think you mean the implementation.

The development of quantum computing is what's afoot. There's nothing remotely secret or mysterious needed to explain why they're researching post-quantum cryptography.

Snowden was simply the face of whistleblowers for a while after verifying things that had been speculated and claimed for over a decade before. What he did wasn't like earth shattering or revolutionary but it made for a good news story for a while and got everyone up in arms over things that were basically already known but not in the common news cycle.

Implementation backdooring is nigger tier, it can always be done. Backdooring the algorithm itself mathematically makes it impossible to unfuck and guarantees that any and all implementations are vulnerable.