[10g1k]

Related note: Government employees (including military, intel) are just people, and worse, bureaucrats. They aren't magical wizards who can all do amazing things with mathematics and witchcraft. If they were good at what they do, they wouldn't need ever increasing funding and projects to fix things.

[ethbr1]

Cryptanalysis and encryption are somewhat of an exception to this. There are some extremely smart people who work in these areas for the government, precisely because funding and application is on a different scale.

[lazide]

Very few folks except the gov’t have real existential need for best in breed crypto, frankly.