Most modern crypto is all but banned by Fedora's (really Redhat's) packaging policies. They only recently agreed to enable ECDSA in OpenSSL, and even then, only with NIST curves. There's a lot of other very shady overrides and limitations they impose on crytpo packages too, and any questions about them are invariably met with a chorus of "we are not at liberty to comment" from some lawyer type. NSA clearly have them by the balls.
My take is that RH is more afraid from patent trolling than some kind of shady government deal.
(edit: expanding why it's more against patent trolling: see their "Open Source Assurance" program: http://www.redhat.com/rhel/details/assurance/ , they provide indemnification, thus their legal department seems to be more on the cautious side)
