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Re:Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen en... by tptacek on Friday October 13, 2023 @01:50AM (#37867163)
NIST refereed a competition among the best-regarded academic cryptographers in the world. It didn't design any of these constructions, and practically all of the inputs into the competition, including the critiques of the submissions, came from academics (many of them not American).

One of the annoying things about how Bernstein is communicating about this is that he is counting on his audience not knowing this.

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Re:Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen en... by diogenes4 on Friday October 13, 2023 @11:54AM (#37872006)
This is all nice and well, but it doesn't actually address the inherent untrustworthiness of a state-associated (and known to be penetrated) organization.
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Re:Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen en... by tptacek on Friday October 13, 2023 @03:17PM (#37874407)
The entire point of the competition is for the state to select a state standard, so "state-associated" is not the smoking gun people suggest it is. If you don't care about state standards, hey, I'm right there with you. But: they obviously exist.
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Re:Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen en... by diogenes4 on Friday October 13, 2023 @10:16PM (#37877566)
Right, I guess I'm asking why anyone puts up with the idea of a state standard to begin with when it only benefits the state.
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Re:Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen en... by tptacek on Friday October 13, 2023 @10:38PM (#37877662)
Why not ask Bernstein why he's participating in a program to generate one?
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