Pre Snowden, I didn't believe in the conspiracy theories. However, it is by now apparent that not only were the conspiracy theorists right, but it was worse than anyone believed.<p>When you combine the Suite B announcement with the fact that the Director of the NSA (Mike Rogers) - as well as the former Director (Michael Hayden) - have both publicly taken a pro-encryption stance (1) in opposition of nearly every other three-letter agency in existence, you have to wonder what they are and aren't scared of.<p>a) They clearly have very little concern with today's conventional encryption.<p>b) They clearly are very concerned about upcoming developments, to the point that they are publicly asking the industry to skip Suite B entirely in favor of spending their R&D on implementing post-quantum algorithms.<p>I, really, -really- hate to be that guy, but these guys are in the know, and it doesn't seem like much of a stretch that we either have functional quantum computers running shor right now today, or the R&D is basically done, and we're a few months-years away from being able to.<p>(1) <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/21/nsa-chief-stakes-out-pro-encryption-position-in-contrast-to-fbi/" rel="nofollow">https://theintercept.com/2016/01/21/nsa-chief-stakes-out-pro...</a>