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Schneier On the US Crypto Competition

Posted by kdawson on from the ante-up dept.

Bruce Schneier has a commentary in Wired titled An American Idol for Crypto Geeks on the US government's competition for a new cryptographic hash function to become the national standard, covered here recently. He talks about how much the competition, slated to wrap up by 2011, will advance the cryptographic state of the art. And how much fun he expects to have.

12 of 58 comments (clear)

  1. Terrorists?? by MrShaggy · · Score: 5, Funny

    But I though that it was only terrorists that use encryption??

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    1. Re:Terrorists?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Don't worry son. I'm sure they'll get to him anytime now.

  2. Donald Rumsfeld is the early favourite by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Funny

    After submitting some of his more cryptic speeches.

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    Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
    What truth?
    There is no dupe
  3. tasty by qwertphobia · · Score: 1, Funny

    mmm.... hash browns

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  4. American Idol? by CerebusUS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please, oh please oh please don't let there be a William Hung to spring from this.

    1. Re:American Idol? by forkazoo · · Score: 2, Funny

      Please, oh please oh please don't let there be a William Hung to spring from this.


      Maybe this guy should submit his work. He'd be right about on William Hung's level of competetiveness....
      http://xkcd.com/c153.html
  5. Fun ??? by jfbus · · Score: 3, Funny

    And how much fun he expects to have. Sometimes, I wonder whether we live in the same world...
    1. Re:Fun ??? by realnowhereman · · Score: 4, Funny

      Repeat after me. It's okay. This is a site for geeks. I don't have to pretend to be cool here. Being interested in encryption does not make me a bad person. I am not in high school any more.

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      Carpe Daemon
  6. That man gets everywhere by hawkinspeter · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/

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  7. Re:SHA-256? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    LOL! No you newb there should be a SHA-1337 cuz I'm so 313373 lolz rolfm!

    AC FTW!

  8. I Win! by lottameez · · Score: 2, Funny

    73 32 76 105 110 33

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  9. Bruce could take the Simon Cowell role... by mutterc · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... insulting the inferior entries.

    (Search his site for "The Doghouse" for some smackdowns of snake-oil crypto products.)