1998-01-18 - Re: uh,

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 2d3249c45a0d71ea79fb16098c12469c092247191e5a5357bd4f602d7091982a
Message ID: <gaTiJe29w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
Reply To: <199801181249.MAA00208@server.eternity.org>
UTC Datetime: 1998-01-18 22:26:04 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 06:26:04 +0800

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 06:26:04 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: uh,
In-Reply-To: <199801181249.MAA00208@server.eternity.org>
Message-ID: <gaTiJe29w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
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Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk> 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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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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• 1998-01-18 (Sun, 18 Jan 1998 15:20:55 +0800) - uh, - “wabe” <wabe@smart.net>
  • 1998-01-18 (Sun, 18 Jan 1998 22:40:04 +0800) - Re: uh, - Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
    • 1998-01-18 (Mon, 19 Jan 1998 06:26:04 +0800) - Re: uh, - dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
      • 1998-01-18 (Mon, 19 Jan 1998 07:49:52 +0800) - proving that one knows how to break RSA - Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
        • 1998-01-19 (Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:25:09 +0800) - Re: proving that one knows how to break RSA - dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
          • 1998-01-19 (Tue, 20 Jan 1998 04:32:34 +0800) - Re: proving that one knows how to break RSA - Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
        • 1998-01-19 (Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:42:16 +0800) - Re: proving that one knows how to break RSA - “Vladimir Z. Nuri” <vznuri@netcom.com>
          • 1998-01-19 (Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:55:02 +0800) - Re: proving that one knows how to break RSA - dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
        • 1998-01-19 (Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:10:27 +0800) - Re: proving that one knows how to break RSA - Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>