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by transmissible 2927 days ago

  Imagine you have two random number generators, each 
  producing a sequence of digits. The question for your 
  computer is this: Are the two sequences completely 
  independent from each other, or are they related in a 
  hidden way?
That, right there, should tell absolutely everyone, by intuition alone, that, despite assurances from industry experts that flaws leading to breaks (plain-text discovery faster than brute force) are universally impractical, even with all the energy of a dyson sphere, that there are classified equations for back doors baked into all modern, commercially used civilian/consumer-grade cryptographic algorithms.
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I'm not 100% sure which side you are taking, but I think you are saying all common crypto is backdoored. That seems like a giant logical leap with absolutely no hints as to why you landed at that conclusion based on your quote.
For the benefit of us with a poor intuition, do you mind walking us through how you arrived at your conclusion?