Show me where they claim to be able to do this. The NSA has done nothing intelligent when it comes to encryption. They've seeded back doors into applications and brute-forced very simple private keys, but actually decrypting RSA 1024-bit encryption is not possible with even the most advanced farms of servers. Not yet, anyway. Quantum computing is a ways off. With current hardware, even in the best case scenarios and an estimated 100,000 dual-octo core processor servers with 1TB/s fiber backplanes, it would take over 10 years to crack a properly-implemented encryption algorithm assuming large primes greater than or equal to half of the large primes used below 1024-bit encryption or greater than 75% of large primes.
But the NSA has supposed worked with IBM on special dedicated computer hardware designed specifically for breaking encryption, which means custom made hardware including the processing chips. If that's the case, the NSA is many steps ahead of everyone else in breaking encryption, since by using dedicated hardware the time needed to break the encryption is vastly shorter.
“Quantum computing is a ways off.”
Oh, i’d guess you’ve missed something ...
http://www.dwavesys.com/en/products-services.html
I’m quite sure someone already ported shores algorithm to this neat kind of hardware. And i’d bet NSA already has quite a bunch of these.
You know this how?
“The NSA has done nothing intelligent when it comes to encryption.”