Re:BLAKE2: “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” Than MD5
by mpyne on Saturday March 22, 2014 @12:49AM
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> I also hope to see more non-standard crypto and protocols, where "the market" leads the way
This is super-dangerous, unless the amorphous "market" is also paying for cryptanalysts to bang on the crypto primitives as a public service to all competitors in the market.
After all, RSA adopting Dual EC DRBG was a business decision, and one which the market didn't reverse despite Dual EC DRBG being publically known to have a probable backdoor since 2007.
This is super-dangerous, unless the amorphous "market" is also paying for cryptanalysts to bang on the crypto primitives as a public service to all competitors in the market.
After all, RSA adopting Dual EC DRBG was a business decision, and one which the market didn't reverse despite Dual EC DRBG being publically known to have a probable backdoor since 2007.