Schneier On the US Crypto Competition

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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Terrorists??

[MrShaggy]

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