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by sah2ed 3475 days ago
"There are hundreds of mathematicians in the NSA, far more than in academic settings, so readership for a typical paper is wider than in the world at large ..." [1]

[1] http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/35...

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That is 15 years old; cryptography as a field has seen tremendous growth in that time frame.