[jspaur]

And even Linus talks about the NSA in that same thread a little lower: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/30/116

[newman314]

And the next email where Ted says that the NSA are one of the good guys... Yeah, not so much.

[tptacek]

You just took T'so's quote totally out of context in order to make a fatuous point. In reality, Torvalds and T'so have a better understanding of software security topics than virtually anyone who comments on HN.

[javert]

For anyone wondering, he literally does not say that.

He says if you're in the government they're one of the good guys, if you're anyone else you want to mix the results of their RNG with some other source.

Which is apparently exactly what this patch does.

[mpyne]

Yeah, how dare the NSA develop SELinux and SHA-1.

I suppose I would just be feeding the conspiracy theories if I mentioned that NSA also pushed security work for X.org forward?