cypherpunks,
From my and others' standpoint at Sandia, NSA, FBI, and NIST are only interested in crypto from a business standpoint.
They want the taxpayer to support their business interests. Some of us at Sandia kicked back. Allahu akbar!!! bill Title: William H. Payne - Arthur R. Morales Documents Revised 16 August 1997 21 June 1997 WILLIAM H. PAYNE - ARTHUR R. MORALES DOCUMENTS These documents pertain to a suit by cryptographer William H. Payne and Arthur R. Morales against the National Security Agency (NSA) and related complaints by Payne against his former employer Sandia National Laboratories (SNL or Sandia), US Department of Energy, and federal officials. Sandia performs contract work for NSA, part of which involves cryptographic systems for nuclear weapons controls. Payne worked on classified cryptographic systems at Sandia. He is a noted scholar, scientist and author of cryptography and computer programming books and articles.* The documents describe Sandia's termination of Payne for alleged security violations, Payne's defense against the security violation charges, and Payne's counter-charges against Sandia and NSA of wrongful termination for criticizing NSA's cryptographic deficiencies and other cryptography-related misdeeds. Date Topic URL 16 August 1997 Payne-Morales Writ of Mandamus Against US District Court Judges Svet and Campos http://jya.com/whp-usca10.htm 21 June 1997 NSA Suit - Motions and Scheduling Order http://jya.com/nsasuit6.htm 4 June 1997 Complaints to Supreme Justice Scalia http://www.jya.com/whpscalia.htm 4 June 1997 U.S. Attorney Warns Payne http://jya.com/whprjg.htm 1 June 1997 Data Authenticator for the Deployable Seismic Verification System http://jya.com/da/whpda.htm 1 June 1997 Secret Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement http://jya.com/scinda.htm 31 May 1997 Embedded Controller Forth for the 8051 Family http://jya.com/f86/whpf86.htm 29 May 29 1997 Notification to Secretary of Energy Pena http://jya.com/whppena.htm 16 May 1997 Payne on RSA and NSA http://jya.com/whprsa.htm 13 May 1997 Payne Accuses Sandia Labs Director http://jya.com/snlhit.htm 11 May 1997 NSA Suit - Initial Scheduling Order http://jya.com/nsasuit5.htm 21 April 1997 NSA Suit - SNL Affidavits/Letters on Classified Data http://jya.com/nsasuit4.htm 12 April 1997 NSA Suit - Answers from NSA http://jya.com/nsasuit3.htm 14 March 1997 Payne Letter to the FBI http://jya.com/whp2.htm 8 March 1997 News Report on NSA and Crypto AG http://jya.com/nsa-sun.htm 8 March 1997 News Reports on NSA Suit http://jya.com/whp1.htm 8 March 1997 NSA Suit - FOIA Appeal http://jya.com/nsasuit2.txt 8 March 1997 NSA Suit - Complaint for Injunctive Relief http://jya.com/nsasuit.txt Following are Department of Energy decisions and orders on William H. Payne's appeals of actions on his requests for information. 20 February 1997 Case No. VFA-0262, 26 DOE ¶ 80,161 http://www.oha.doe.gov/cases/foia/vfa0262.htm 16 December 1996 Case No. VFA-0243, 26 DOE ¶ 80,144 http://www.oha.doe.gov/cases/foia/vfa0243.htm 10 July 1996 Case No. VFA-0178, 25 DOE ¶ 80,214 http://www.oha.doe.gov/cases/foia/vfa0178.htm 6 May 1996 Case No. VFA-0148, 25 DOE ¶ 80,190 http://www.oha.doe.gov/cases/foia/vfa0148.htm 26 March 1996 Case No. VFA-0128, 25 DOE ¶ 80,184 http://www.oha.doe.gov/cases/foia/vfa0128.htm 8 November 1995 Case No. VFA-0091, 25 DOE ¶ 80,147 http://www.oha.doe.gov/cases/foia/VFA0091.HTM 10 October 1995 Case No. VFA-0076, 25 DOE ¶ 80,140 http://www.oha.doe.gov/cases/foia/VFA0076.HTM * Selected Works of William H. Payne Payne, William H., Data Authenticator for the Deployable Seismic Verification System, Sandia Report SAND91-2201, UC-706, Sandia National Laboartories, June 1992. Payne, William H., Embedded Controller FORTH For the 8051 Family, Academic Press, Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1990. Payne, William, and Payne, Patricia, Implementing Basics: How BASICs Work, Reston Publishing, Reston, Virginia, 1982. Payne, W.H., and McMillen, K.L., Orderly Enumeration of Nonsingular Binary Matrices Applied to Text Encryption, Communciations of the ACM, vol. 21, 4 (April 1978), 259-263. Lewis, T.G., and Payne, W.H., Generalized Feedback Shift Register Pseudorandom Number Generator, Journal of the ACM 20, 3 (July 1973), 456-468.