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Re:NIST advises services to not require that passwords be ch... by LinuxBender on Sunday May 21, 2017 @12:29PM (#14387954)
If I were an intelligence agency or signal intelligence, I might argue for this so that I can narrow my attacks to one cipher. Perhaps the mafia or cartel would benefit from this. I can't imagine any other rational to argue for standardizing on a single cipher.
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Re:NIST advises services to not require that passwords be ch... by Tomte on Sunday May 21, 2017 @01:49PM (#14388263)
Interoperability. Limiting resources (hardware implementation for AES on chip, as opposed to hardware implementations for n ciphers).
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