On 4/19/12, Marsh Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/14/2012 06:39 AM, David Adamson wrote: >> >> [...] >> Now I expect EU to use the opportunity and finally back up a >> hash function that industry will prefer. But I see also that Russia, >> China and Japan can also use the NIST's screw up with the performance >> of SHA-3 and will try to take over the industrial primacy with their >> own hash function. > > Honest question: why should we think they can do it? >
1. There is no dispute that NIST is the THE leading organization when it comes to setting up standards in information security & cryptography. 2. But there is no dispute also that there have been attempts from several other countries to push their own international crypto standards (European RIPEMD-160, Russian GOST, Japanese Kasumi, Chinese ZUC, German BSI with their new ID cards loaded with heavy crypto and probably many others that I am missing). 3. Having a competition in any field is good. 4. Usually, when the leader make a mistake, the competition tries to make an advantage of that mistake. 5. It is not just my opinion that NIST made a mistake by not staying on the initial goal SHA-3 to be SIGNIFICANTLY more efficient than SHA-2. However, I think that actually that mistake will be used by some of the organizations that I have mentioned in order to raise their international reputation and some of them will push for a hash standard that industry will prefer more than SHA-2 and SHA-3. Regards, David Adamson Jr. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
