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The normal way to describe that movement is “the field of cryptography”. Lots of people are working on it, and almost everyone pays attention to it.

You mean with the formal complaint to NIST?

https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/group/pqc-forum/at...

I'm hearing he is mostly piggy backing on others work, as from what I'm told he was a quantum skeptic and joined the game late (honestly just repeating informal chats with some people interested in that topic)

Isn't all science "piggy backing on others work"?

I'm not sure how that could be the case. Dan was among the first to push the notion of post-quantum cryptography, along with Johannes Buchmann and his research group at Darmstadt (which credit him in [1] with the coining of the notion of "post-quantum cryptography"). Both organized the first PQCrypto conference in 2006, and edited the first book on post-quantum crypto.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/297