The NSA managed to deliberately insert a backdoor into elliptic-curve cryptography right under the noses of everyone capable of making elliptic-curve cryptography.
I wouldn't count them out.
I wouldn't count them out.
Especially academia tend to do their work out of interest, their monetary gain isn't their primary goal
Of course, that doesn’t mean nobody will do job B for other, non-financial reasons.
That sort of proves the opposite point, assuming you're referring to Dual EC DRBG, because the flaw was noticed very early on, by people who weren't even involved in its development.