Russell Nelson says:
The NSA will either adapt or die -- it seems to be trying to die right now rather than adapt, but thats not our problem.
Cautionary note here, Perry. People who feel that have no choices often don't care if the only choice they see is a bad one. Hitler [yeah, yeah, I know] convinced the German people that all their choices were bad, but his was best. They killed a few people -- it was in all the papers at the time.
Naturally, they won't take things lying down. It is certainly in our interest to make sure that they don't cause trouble, especially bad trouble, during their demise. (Actually, I don't think they will stop existing, just that they will have to accept that their work IS going to be hard from now on and leave it at that.) My point is merely that they have no real choice in the matter -- just as a congressman falling out a window can shout at the law of gravity all he wants, and threaten legal action, to no effect, so the NSA can pretend that it can restrict the growth of private sector cryptography but it is already too late. You can't stop people from learning something they already know. Perry