[0xbadcafebee]

That's assuming there's no attacks found in a given algorithm. If there is a feasible attack found, the math changes, sometimes dramatically. And we'll never know it because they sure as hell aren't gonna announce it.

Anyway, I'm not worried because governments don't need to crack encryption to do dastardly shit. They have far easier methods to get what they want.

[cenamus]

Also just picking constants for encryption algorithms that are supposed to be "nothing up my sleeve" numbers, like the n first digits of pi.

DJB had a good talk about how many degrees of freedom you can still get picking such numbers and how much you can weaken crypto algorithms (even though not outright breaking them), but I can't find it at the moment