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Maybe while they are at it, they can convince their friends that crypto backdoors are bad for everyone.

What's the subtext behind this comment? I don't see what specific point you're trying to make. I could guess, but I'd rather just hear it directly from you.

The recent buzz about NSA, or whichever three-letter agency it was, pushing for crypto backdoors. And by friends, I just mean other people in government/military/intelligence.

I don't really have a point here, just a thought that popped in my head.

The recent buzz about DoJ putting backdoors in OpenBSD's IPSEC stack was, even if you buy the totally unsubstantiated and bogus buzz, in order for DoJ to monitor their own networks; ie, even if you believe the crazy people spreading that FUD, there's no claim that there's a public-facing backdoor in OpenBSD.

It doesn't seem reasonable to me that we should spend months up in arms about the government backdooring projects every time someone 5 degrees of separation away from a major project makes a claim.

I didn't mean the OpenBSD alleged backdoors. I meant future backdoors that would be required by law. I remember reading a news article about that recently (might have been a few months ago).

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