Pre Snowden, I didn&#x27;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&#x27;t scared of.<p>a) They clearly have very little concern with today&#x27;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&amp;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&#x27;t seem like much of a stretch that we either have functional quantum computers running shor right now today, or the R&amp;D is basically done, and we&#x27;re a few months-years away from being able to.<p>(1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;21&#x2F;nsa-chief-stakes-out-pro-encryption-position-in-contrast-to-fbi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;21&#x2F;nsa-chief-stakes-out-pro...</a>