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Of course we need to worry about them? Even by what acamedia knows, it's pretty bad right now for security and encryption in practice.

The belief that the NSA is at the extreme cutting edge and just so far ahead is exactly what stops us from making iterative, simple improvements on the technology we use. It's plain unhelpful, and as the data suggests, probably wrong.

(The separation of concerns part is hilarious. Remember, this is the same agency where Snowden managed to wget -r their wiki and various other databases and then go on an extended vacation unnoticed.)

>>revela+(OP)
The only data we have points to that the NSA is ahead of the academic community, from differential cryptanalysis onwards.