Comment by HansHarmannij

A few years back I had the chance to talk with Joan Daemen after he gave a presentation about keccak, which hadn't won the competition yet. This was way before Snowden. He was very sceptical about the use of his work. He thought it was fun doing it, but it didn't have any use, since everything has backdoors anyway. That's what he said. Sounded a bit paranoid to me back then, but now it sounds a lot more plausible.