Comment by tptacek

Nobody thinks the people who shouted down Phil Rogaway, who include relatively famous standards nerds, were NSA plants. It's uncharitable for me to keep calling them out by name, but IYKYK.

You have far more to fear from standards bodies just acting like standards bodies (limited recent exceptions notwithstanding) than from government interference with standards. Like I said, all NSA usually needs to do is sit back and wait for standards groups to come up with Heartbleed on their own.