[Cryptography] NSA and cryptanalysis

[Jerry Leichter]

So the latest Snowden data contains hints that the NSA (a) spends a great deal of money on cracking encrypted Internet traffic; (b) recently made some kind of a cryptanalytic "breakthrough".  What are we to make of this?  (Obviously, this will all be wild speculation unless Snowden leaks more specific information - which wouldn't fit his style, at least as demonstrated so far.)

                                                        -- Jerry