The NSA doesn't need to advertise how much computing power they have, they
have their own chip fab (the special processing labratory) see:
http://www.nsa.gov:8080/museum/lab.html if they want to churn out
specialized asics to attack certain cryptographic schemes you can be sure
that they would do so...
joelja
> <conspiracy_theory>
>
> Well, Don Becker used to work for the NSA, didn't he? The stuff the
> NSA is presumed to be doing is stuff that is eminently parallelizable
> and would work *very* well on even very large Beowulf cluster... and
> there is the rumour that the NSA doesn't want adversaries to know how
> much computer resources they have and so want to buy from as many
> sources as possible, which would make PC software even better
> suited...
>
> </conspiracy_theory>
>
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