From: anonymous-remailer@xs4all.nl (Name withheld on request)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 13:59:27 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re:  The NSA (Was Re: Factoring - State of the Art and Predictions )
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An entity purporting to be Mike Duvos writes:

> Such a situation does not apply solely to the NSA.  There are,
> for instance, secret lodges of French mystics who devote
> themselves to higher mathematics, absorb everything the open
> community produces, and rarely publish anything or draw attention
> to themselves.  They solve problems, write secret manuscripts,
> put them on shelves, and have been doing this for centuries.
> Perhaps the ultimate factoring algorithm already exists within
> their walls.  We would never know if it did, unless they chose to
> tell us.

Actually, the French group is a subsidiary of our Bavarian operation.
However, "centuries" is, well, somewhat inaccurate, though the 
mathematician who first mentioned our existence about that time has
since recanted after a visit from the Elders...

				A.W.

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