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The officially published ones. It remains an open question what the NSA knows. I was going to back up the idea that the NSA might potentially be ahead of the
by archgoon 15y ago
The officially published ones. It remains an open question what the NSA knows.
I was going to back up the idea that the NSA might potentially be ahead of the public community of number theorists and cryptographers by citing the relative sizes of the two groups. Unfortunately, those numbers are classified. :(
- wbhart 15y agoThe NSA recently stated that they are only a couple of years ahead. And by that I take it they mean their computers are bigger. Recall that they are a military outfit. Only a small part of what they do is crypto related. Despite them having 40,000 employees or so, one shouldn't read that as meaning they have 40,000 people working on breaking RSA. They do many other things.