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So subtlety and obfuscation to make good ideas sound bad (serpent), and bad ideas attractive (in the interest of performance and practicality). So when any sta
by cryptolect 12y ago
So subtlety and obfuscation to make good ideas sound bad (serpent), and bad ideas attractive (in the interest of performance and practicality).
So when any standards body recommends a particular cryptographic approach, we should ask why, and then why again.
- tete 12y agoCurrently they say performance and performance again. Sometimes they say nothing. Sometimes there is a good reason, sometimes there isn't. Sometimes they want to protect, sometimes they want to attack. That's the problem when you give one institution the job to do both.