Paweł Morawiecki writes: > I think we should strive for openness and a free flow of ideas.
Right. That's why the advantages and disadvantages of various submissions are analyzed extensively in public documents, most importantly scientific papers. "The submitter/submitters understand that if they disagree with published analyses then they are expected to promptly and publicly respond to those analyses, not to wait for subsequent committee decisions." The unfortunate reality is that the cryptographic community doesn't have the resources to thoroughly analyze _all_ candidates, so some focus is required. The committee has the tough job of trying to select the most promising algorithms, when the whole reason that a selection is necessary is that there isn't enough information available to be confident about what the best algorithms are! "The submitter/submitters understand that the selection of some algorithms is not a negative comment regarding other algorithms, and that an excellent algorithm might fail to be selected simply because not enough analysis was available at the time of the committee decision." > After the second round, designers received (after several weeks) > feedback from the committee members on their algorithms. No. _Some_ individual committee members asked me to pass _some_ comments along to _some_ designers, and so I did, with an explicit caveat that individual comments often do not reflect the committee view. "The submitter/submitters understand that the committee will not comment on the algorithms, except that for each selected algorithm the committee will simply cite the previously published analyses that led to the selection of the algorithm." ---Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cryptographic competitions" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to crypto-competitions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to crypto-competitions@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/crypto-competitions. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
