The breakthrough was enormous, says the former official, and soon
afterward the agency pulled the shade down tight on the project, even
within the intelligence community and Congress. "Only the chairman and
vice chairman and the two staff directors of each intelligence
committee were told about it," he says. The reason? "They were
thinking that this computing breakthrough was going to give them the
ability to crack current public encryption."
---SPSmith
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