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Re:Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key... by tptacek on Monday October 21, 2024 @08:00PM (#41909825)
My understanding is that NIST has like 2 cryptographers sitting in a closet somewhere. They're good cryptographers, but there isn't much of them.
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Re:Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key... by Joel_Mckay on Monday October 21, 2024 @08:13PM (#41909898)
One will find the pool of people that deal in esoteric problems tends to be rather small in every field. =3
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Re:Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key... by cperciva on Monday October 21, 2024 @09:52PM (#41910404)
NIST is basically the publishing arm of the NSA, so it really depends on whether the NSA is taking the "protect national information assets" or the "attack foreign information assets" part of its mandate more seriously from year to year.
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Re:Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key... by dfc on Monday October 21, 2024 @10:03PM (#41910460)
NIST does a lot of really neat work outside of crypto standards. Judah Levine and all the other metrology folks are awesome. It's unfortunate that they get grouped together by comments like this.
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Re:Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key... by cperciva on Monday October 21, 2024 @10:24PM (#41910591)
Sorry, yes I only meant in the context of cryptography of course. NIST is a great organization and it's really a historical accident that they do anything with crypto.
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