[Cryptography] NSA seeing large exodus?

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 09:19:33PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> I have heard in a past discussion on this list that the NSA employs some
> significant fraction of all people who have postgrad degrees in crypto
> related topics in the US. Does this mean that the private sector now has a
> significantly larger talent pool for security related jobs?

If I had to guess that percentage of crypto specialists at NSA
relative to its entire employee base is relatively small.  I suspect
there is a much larger percentage of NSA employees who are computer
engineers, especially in the computer security specialists.

And there is certainly a significant demand in the private sector for
cyber security specialists.  After all, security bugs like this:

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html

don't discover themselves, you know!

						- Ted