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Re:IOTA Surges Past Ripple by Aledgerly on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @09:45AM (#15861349)
Kerl is Keccak I.E. SHA-3, the international NSA standard. They called it Kerl for fun in homage of Curl, which is still under active development with the absolute world-leading cryptographers of lightweight cryptography. Curl had to be invented to push LIGHTWEIGHT cryptography which is necessary for the Internet of Things. It's quite astonishing how much misinformation is spread around.

https://blog.iota.org/iota-foundation-hires-cybercrypt-615d2...

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Re:IOTA Surges Past Ripple by baby on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:04AM (#15861502)
SHA-3 is not an NSA standard. It was invented by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, Michaël Peeters and Gilles Van Assche who are researchers at various companies/universities and are from Italy and Belgium.

Your curl function is not even listed as one of the major lightweight crypto primitive on Lux' zoo: https://www.cryptolux.org/index.php/Lightweight_Hash_Functio...

Your post is full of shit.

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Re:IOTA Surges Past Ripple by algorithmsRcool on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @09:52AM (#15861397)
I am very curious about what 'LIGHTWEIGHT' cryptography is defined as. I am also dubious about anyone that claims to have 'absolute world-leading cryptographers' since many strong cryptographers are quietly employed by intelligence agencies and most others are academics.

Also, since we are being pedantic, SHA-3/Keccak is an NIST standard, which is a federal agency of the United States.

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Re:IOTA Surges Past Ripple by hobofan on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @11:19AM (#15862266)
I'm not an expert in the field, but there certainly have been efforts here and there to make "lightweight" crypto that needs little computational resources (and therefore battery power). One example would be KASUMI[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KASUMI

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Re:IOTA Surges Past Ripple by IncRnd on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:22AM (#15861687)
This kind of post doesn't work when cryptographers read it.
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