But here's the nub of my point: It is hard, though, and it's harder than it looks, and this matters more for cryptography than compression because of the things people do with cryptography. If you design a bum compression algorithm, you make files you can't really decompress and you get discouraged. If you make a bum encryption algorithm, and you get all excited and actually use it for something important, and it's easy to break, well, you might get a lot worse than discouraged. Major companies have been bitten by this. Is your algorithm better than HDCP? Probably not. You know what happened to HDCP? Yeah. Intel wishes it had taken the kind of advice any new cryptographer gets about not taking their own inventions too seriously.
So, basically, nobody would have any interest in preventing an explosion of new strong cryptography is that right?
This confuses (or may just respond to only one of) two things I’m saying: field is kept artificially weakened by the priests; and new designs by outsiders are deliberately kept out. These are connected.
What you’re talking about it seems is just genuine competence and performance. I’m fine with that. I’m okay to compete. But it’s not just competition we’re dealing with, it’s artificial bias, designed to keep the field weak.
With crypto hashes it’s more than just entropy: there’s many hashes that sit at the top of good entropy performance regarding smhasher results, but that’s not enough for crypto: you need analysis. And for analysis you need experts.
But if i was worried about just competing on performance, which I’m not (many of my hashes have excellent entropy results), then your piece world be encouraging, it’s a good pep piece! Well done!