Question Authority (And Other Conspiracies)

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T: NSA leaned on NIST to propose less secure digital signature standard than RSA.

T: After a public outcry, NIST allowed a longer key (up to 1024 bits) which made it into the digital signature standard FIPS-186

Tb: The reason DSA was used for digital signatures rather than the more proven RSA algorithm was that NSA opposes easy public access to an algorithm that can also be used for general encryption. (RSA can/DSA can't).