Technically, the NSA's unchecked surveillance sped up encryption adoption by 7 years.<p>If I lock my doors more because of increased thefts in my area, I don't say it's because of the news site where I learned about them. It's because there are thieves about.
This sounds about right. Antoine Joux's astonishing progress on solving the DLP in small/medium characteristic fields along with a slew of Fault, Side-channel, Acoustic attacks have rendered anyone using RSA very vulnerable. Elliptic Curves have such a high cognitive overhead such that there are probably less than 50 people in the world capable of discovering a novel ECDLP attack but now that attention is being drawn towards ECC there could be a new attack found any day. I suspect this whole Post-Quantum crypto focus is an attempt to keep eyes off of the the ECDLP