This is just wild-ass guessing though, which is fun, but not informative. Do you have even a shred of evidence the NSA is ahead in the last 20 years? Talking th

This is just wild-ass guessing though, which is fun, but not informative. Do you have even a shred of evidence the NSA is ahead in the last 20 years? Talking theoretical crypto, algorithm design, etc. of the observers and folks in the academic side of this field many suspect academia more or less caught up to the NSA, for example and they would be best positioned to guess that. Call me a skeptic the NSA is categorically ahead these days.