> If it gets weakened such that it goes from "impossible" to "nation-states can crack" then there's still only 3-4 agencies in the whole world that could decrypt.
You'd have to be talking about a gigantic change for it to benefit them. I want my crypto to take 10 billion years to crack; intelligence agencies want to crack it in a week.
And what they can crack in a week today, hobbyists will be able to crack in a day a few years from now.
Weakening crypto means opening it to every criminal in the world. Computers get faster and secret backdoors get leaked.
If it isn't safe from everyone, in the long run, it isn't safe from anyone.
You'd have to be talking about a gigantic change for it to benefit them. I want my crypto to take 10 billion years to crack; intelligence agencies want to crack it in a week.
And what they can crack in a week today, hobbyists will be able to crack in a day a few years from now.
Weakening crypto means opening it to every criminal in the world. Computers get faster and secret backdoors get leaked.
If it isn't safe from everyone, in the long run, it isn't safe from anyone.