[theWatcher37]

NSA made seemingly bening improvements to crypto standards that the academic community only discovered as valuable over a decade later.

They’re the largest single employer of mathmaticians in the world.

[monocasa]

> NSA made seemingly bening improvements to crypto standards that the academic community only discovered as valuable over a decade later.

At the same time, they negotiated DES's key length down. It was 64 bits originally, the NSA wanted only 48 bits, IBM and the NSA compromised on 56 bits.