http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?pagewanted=1
"Simultaneously, the N.S.A. has been deliberately weakening the
international encryption standards adopted by developers. One goal in
the agency�s 2013 budget request was to �influence policies, standards
and specifications for commercial public key technologies,� the most
common encryption method.
Cryptographers have long suspected that the agency planted
vulnerabilities in a standard adopted in 2006 by the National Institute
of Standards and Technology and later by the International Organization
for Standardization, which has 163 countries as members. "
As I have pointed out previously, you should probably assume that
backdoors have been introduced into much OS security software.
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