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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.

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

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

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

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

  3. 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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  4. That man gets everywhere by hawkinspeter · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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