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The subject of this article spent his career working for the super-secret U.S. National Security Agency, so published sources about his life and work are meager. The sources used to write this article have no personal connection to the subject or the NSA. They're independent either academic or journalistic sources. Brian Snow is notable for two reasons: (1) He was the top scientific manager in the NSA's information security division during a crucial period of development of national and international cryptographic standards, and he represented the NSA in the selection procedure for the Advanced Encryption Standard. (2) He is known to have strenuously opposed actions he believed to be unethical that were proposed by the offensive arm of the NSA, especially actions designed to undermine industry security. This is why the sources in the article have written about him by name. My understanding of Wikipedia's notability criteria is that they're not a rigid check-list, but rather rely on common sense and allow us to take into account that people in Snow's line of work do not normally get illustrious titles or flashy awards. I think the template that questions notability should be removed. Thanks. NealKoblitz (talk) 01:19, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
