-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - ----- BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE HERE ---- 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. - ----- PGP SIGNATURE BLOCK ---- PGP-Version: 23.5 PGP-Signature: T! - ----- END PGP SIGNED MESSAGE ----- - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBLz/HsCoZzwIn1bdtAQEU/wF/Rr/9NvFyxbdxadvn6fql1wjfy19/oXOV 87PHHcmP1OWOxE8HU1oaZ9ZwVcNhD3XX =dIax -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----