Bruce Schneier wrote in Applied Cryptography, Second Edition (around 1996): "The NSA probably possesses cryptographic expertise many years ahead of public stat

Bruce Schneier wrote in Applied Cryptography, Second Edition (around 1996): "The NSA probably possesses cryptographic expertise many years ahead of public state of the art (in algorithms, but probably not in protocols) and can undoubtedly break many of the systems used in practise." In 2010 former NSA technical director mentioned that they have been losing ground to their public counterparts during the last twenty years but that they would probably be still ahead of the public by "handful of years". [1] [1] http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/030410-rsa-cloud-security-warning.html?page=1 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/030410-rsa-cloud-secur...