On 2013-10-01 00:44, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
Should one also accuse ESTREAM of maliciously weakening SALSA? Or
might one admit the possibility that winning designs in contests
are at times quite conservative and that one can reasonably
standardize less conservative parameters that are more competitive
in software?
"less conservative" means weaker.
Weaker in ways that the NSA has examined, and the people that chose the
winning design have not.
Why then hold a contest and invite outside scrutiny in the first place.?
This is simply a brand new unexplained secret design emerging from the
bowels of the NSA, which already gave us a variety of backdoored crypto.
The design process, the contest, the public examination, was a lie.
Therefore, the design is a lie.
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