The quotation of mine in the NYT today was one I gave to John Markoff three weeks ago when the story first broke. I called him up on the afternoon of the announcment--his office is in SF, across the bay--and told him I wanted him to give him an opportunity to quote me. I was surprised to see it in today's article. The hook for this article was the recent FOIA disclosures. Newspaper articles usually don't get written unless there is something that has changed, something that is "new." An ongoing situation won't get reported on until something specific happens; this specific happening can be an event made just for the press--a press conference, a press release, a public statement, or some publication. For further reading on this subject, look at _Reading the News_, an anthology by Pantheon Press. The FOIA disclosures about NSA's involvement in NIST was the hook, but that wasn't the point of the story. The facts of the FOIA were at the back of the story, but they were there. This illustrates another principle of the newspaper: once you have a hook, there's lots of stuff you can hang on it. It really is easy to get quoted, but to do so, you have to make yourself available to the press. The recent FOIA story is a good hook. All the recent crypto events should be enough for a Sunday article (but are not enough without a hook!). I would encourage all of you to make contact with your local media and offer to explain this abstruse subject to them. Reporters have little enough time to learn about what they talk about as it is. If you can present yourself as a bona fide expert (and this does not necessarily mean as an academic) and make an offer to tutor someone on the subject, not only will the quality of coverage improve, but a friendship will have been made. Eric