I was reading Andreas Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood's book, Mastering Ethereum (link to open source version on Githib).
According to the authors in chapter 4, Ethereum was built on the Keccak-256 encryption function which was created by NIST. Shortly after this function was released and adopted, a supposedly new and improved version of it was released by NIST. This new "SHA 3" function was going to be used by Ethereum and is actually listed in many of the docs as a result.
Edward Snowden's leaked documents showed that the NSA had potentially placed a backdoor into this newer function, allowing them to break its encryption if they ever needed to. This leak caused the Ethereum community to stick with Keccak, single-handedly saving it from the NSA.
Edward Snowden's 1/1 NFT, Stay Free, really hits different now.
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