Aledgerly

Everything in that blog post is very much what the rest of the industry is agreeing with. Sources backing this up is even cited in the damn blog post man.

So much misinformation, where to begin. IOTA is using Keccak/SHA-3, then they are developing a new kind of LIGHTWEIGHT cryptographic primitive together with the world leaders of this field

https://blog.iota.org/iota-foundation-hires-cybercrypt-615d2...

Kerl is Keccak I.E. SHA-3, the international NSA standard. They called it Kerl for fun in homage of Curl, which is still under active development with the absolute world-leading cryptographers of lightweight cryptography. Curl had to be invented to push LIGHTWEIGHT cryptography which is necessary for the Internet of Things. It's quite astonishing how much misinformation is spread around.

https://blog.iota.org/iota-foundation-hires-cybercrypt-615d2...

So much misinformation here. The Jinn project is in active development.

I highly suggest you read

https://blog.iota.org/curl-disclosure-beyond-the-headline-18...

Yes, Ethan was then forced to admit that the IOTA team actually approached him in May.

This is a common misunderstanding. IOTA never deployed a vulnerable hashfunction. They had precautionary measures in place and thus had Curl there to test it out, which worked out brilliantly. Keep in mind that IOTA asked the team to attack Curl, not the other way around. This was planned.

Curl is meant to be a lightweight crypto for IOT, a field of very active research. None of this is controversial to anyone that isn't looking for things to latch negativity onto.