There are definite theoretical improvements in the design, ie combining small packets together and compression that make sense (these were in place before Jan. 28)

However running each opcode through a bit scrambler then feeding it through a lookup table just to get back to the old switch statement is not one of them.

Oh well just makes it more fun to solve. I wonder that VI just doesn't get it yet. The more challenging the change, the more hackers they get to come out of the woodwork and pay attention to it. I suppose they might have one developer whose job it is to work on encryption full time, so for him it's a paycheck