> I’m mostly wondering if he frames the resistance as “can’t” or just “won’t let it scale.” I think thats the wrong axis, the fight wasnt about scaling a nice idea, it was about control. The NSA didnt just doubt deployment cost, they actively treated public crypto as a threat to lawful interception and pushed to keep it classified and constrained, so “won’t let it scale” is closer, but even that understates the political hostility.