On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:

http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf

"From 2000 to 2010, fewer than 15% of the papers at CRYPTO that acknowledged U.S. extramural funding acknowledged DoD funding. In 2011, this rose to 25%. From 2012 to2015, it rose to 65%. Nowadays, many cryptographers put together a large patchwork of grants, *the largest of which are usually DoD.*"

I'm afraid that *funding* is the biggest hurdle to achieving Rogaway's goals. It's somewhat easier for Rogaway, as he has tenure, but how does a young crypto researcher get non-DoD funding?

And yet he expressed fear that an errant remark on a phone call would lead to his assassination? I will trust him if he has a suspicious suicide, otherwise the hyperbole is more cause for suspicion.