Referred from your reply to my comment[0]; Algorithms can be backdoored due to having a novel technique to defeat them that you have not disclosed and has not otherwise been discovered yet. We are constantly adopting and discarding encryption algorithms that have not withstood the test of time.
If someone has gotten a jump on research and found a novel attack against their math, but the math looks good enough to convince others to use, that is an enormous advantage.
If someone has gotten a jump on research and found a novel attack against their math, but the math looks good enough to convince others to use, that is an enormous advantage.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15305331