17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
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. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps