> That's kind of a strange takeaway from Boneh's RSA attack paper, which is a survey of other researchers; IIRC, no two of the attacks in that paper came from t

> That's kind of a strange takeaway from Boneh's RSA attack paper, which is a survey of other researchers; IIRC, no two of the attacks in that paper came from the same researcher. I think I had that sense about individual items there, like Coppersmith's attack. > if you look at some of the other "great personages of cryptography", you'll see that they're minting PhDs who are themselves going on to do important work, so the capacity of the field is expanding, not contracting to a single Bernstein monoculture point. That's great news.