The 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

The 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.