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Schneier On the US Crypto Competition

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 12, 2007 @01:08AM 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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Terrorists?? by MrShaggy · 2007-02-12 01:10 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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That man gets everywhere by hawkinspeter · 2007-02-12 01:42 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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Re:Fun ??? by realnowhereman · 2007-02-12 02:00 · 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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Re:SHA-256? by archen · 2007-02-12 02:14 · Score: 5, Insightful

If your algorithm is showing weaknesses, then throwing more bits at the problem is best reserved as a temporary solution. At the worst this competition will just give us an alternative hash algorithm, and that is probably reason enough to have it.