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> Although he hasn't found the smoking gun (yet)

So the author is admitting to the title being fake news?

actually since large parts of my addendum blog post were quoted here, here is another quote:

> lets me conclude that the PX1000cr algorithm is indeed a confirmed backdoor.

I guess, me and the cryptomuseum people had a misunderstanding about this.

i mean an algebraic full key recovery out of 17 ciphertext chars is nothing else but catastrophic. and i'm sure this can be done much more efficiently.

Oh hi! And thanks for the clearup!

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