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Re:Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen en... by riffraff on Friday October 13, 2023 @02:36AM (#37867460)
NIST promotes open competitions with many non-US based participants, e.g. AES was designed by Belgian researchers.

These is somewhat better than not having such a system at all.

If nothing else, you get to benefit from public analysis and pick another of the algorithms that get proposed in the competition, even if it's not the NIST-blessed one.

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Re:Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen en... by diogenes4 on Friday October 13, 2023 @11:55AM (#37872014)
The issue is not AES of course, it's the NIST being associated with a government that can't be trusted when it comes to developing reliable and trustworthy encryption schemes. They've clearly demonstrated this time and time again.
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