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Re: uh,




Adam Back <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Bill Payne used to work for one of the US national labs, he did some
> work funded by NSA at that lab.  He considered that the NSA were
> making incompetent cryptographic decisions endangering national
> security.
>
> He's suing them over their attempts to silence his criticisms by
> working behind the scenes to deprive him of research funding.
...

Bill Payne was with Sandia national lab (where they quite a bit of crypto work)
Bill claims to have discovered a very fast factorization algorithm using shift
registers, which he refuses to publish. While I haven't seen the algorithm, I
believe he may well be right.

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