> But I don't suspect they have revolutionary breakthroughs ala the NSA with crypto. I wouldn't be so sure - GCHQ recruits heavily from Cambridge and Oxford, a

> But I don't suspect they have revolutionary breakthroughs ala the NSA with crypto. I wouldn't be so sure - GCHQ recruits heavily from Cambridge and Oxford, and I once met a Mathematics PhD who told me in the UK his two main options for employment were academia or the service. They have a lot of crypto talent there and they're not working on the big data systems talked about here.