Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Equation Group Multiple Malware Program, NSA Implicated

From someone failing to send to list: Or he actually got those docs ...

Possible, but you would expect crypto research to be well compartmented from legal, sigint and offensive ops that appear to be the sole scope of the known docs. If research does posess a break, maintaining that secret while producing politically/operationally useful decrypts would be harder to manage.

but the journalists he entrusted them to have decided not to release them.

You can always bury / escrow multiple copies in multiple locations known only to you in case you need them later. Hard to believe this was not forseen and done given history of media with prior leaks.