Re: On what the NSA does with its tech

Hint: all major cryptanalytic advances, where governments broke a cypher and general public found out few *decades* later were not of brute-force kind. all generalizations are false, including this one. most of the WWII advances in computing were to brute-force code engines, not solve them analytically. but yes - analysis has come a long way, and it is always going to be more cost effective for the NSA to hire mathematical geniuses (at however much it costs) than to build a brute-force cracker at the keysizes available today. And cheaper still to do an end-run around the crypto and access

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