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The only safe assumption is that the NSA knows how to break modern crypto. Otherwise, you're taking a risk every time you encrypt something you don't want them looking at.

And if the NSA found a flaw in a crypto algorithm, do you really think they would leave evidence of that anywhere? You're talking about an organization that basically invented the entire idea of OpSec...



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