Hmm, you may have a point there. In that case... there's no way you'll ever find any security flaws in tarsnap! My code is far too good for either you or anyone else to find any bugs in it! And your mother is... oh, never mind. I'm really not very good at acting unreasonable. :-)

Incidentally: you'd be surprised how many "names" in the industry are ex-NSA.

Fair enough -- but the principle of conservatism requires me to presume that the NSA has at very least more resources than its former employees.