Re: Back to MD5, et. al.
That can't be repeated often enough: FBI wants to catch criminals, or at least they want to be seen doing stuff, so they want to break encryption. NSA on the other hand has the job to look out for national security, from both sides. It should be obvious that weak encryption makes it easier for the good guys to go after the bad guys, but also makes it easier for the bad guys to go after the good guys (whoever you think "good" and "bad" guys are). And the NSA has concluded again and again, that overall weak encryption is worse for the good guys.
(The NSA doesn't care about privacy, so when they say weak encryption is overall bad, it means it's overall bad even if you ignore any privacy problems. When you count in privacy, weak encryption is even worse).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
