&gt;nothing stops you from having a &quot;pre-government intervention&quot; version<p>Don&#x27;t neglect to consider surreptitious intervention.  You&#x27;re not going to see a `dhs&#x2F;libressl` fork on github.  We tried that with the NSA-&gt;NIST flow, and it was outed.  New flaws will be injected by some cryptographer being run by clandestine services.