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Some cyphers maybe. But it's highly unlikely that all or even most in use are compromised. There are many cryptography researchers who aren't part of the NSA. Other nations for example. And banks obviously trust some cryptography.


Even if they were compromised I imagine the nsa would probably hesitate to use it in a detectable way and "save it for a real threat"


I recall reading that government agencues forced the NIST to relax certain crypography standards so that they could still be reasonably broken with super computers.




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