Some new snippets from the Snowden documents
> "How do they accomplish their goals with project BULLRUN? One way is that United States National Security Agency (NSA) participates in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) community protocol standardization meetings with the explicit goal of sabotaging protocol security to enhance NSA surveillance capabilities." "Discussions with insiders confirmed what is claimed in as of yet unpublished classified documents from the Snowden archive and other sources." (page 6-7, note 8)There's long been stories about meddling in other standards orgs (both to strengthen and to weaken them), but I don't recall hearing rumors about sabotage of IETF standards.