----- Forwarded message from "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> ----- Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 08:39:08 +1000 From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> To: cryptography@randombit.net Subject: Re: [cryptography] A question about public keys Message-ID: <524DF20C.7090809@echeque.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 Reply-To: jamesd@echeque.com On 2013-10-04 03:45, Adam Back wrote:

Is it just me or could we better replace NIST by DJB ? ;) He can do that EC crypto, and do constant time coding (nacl), and non-hackable mail servers (qmail), and worst-time databases (cdb). Most people in the world look like rank amateurs or no-real-programming understanding niche-bound math geeks compared to DJB!

Committees are at best inherently more stupid than their most stupid member, and are at worst also inclined to evil and madness. Linux was success because Linus is unelected president for life. Let us have Jon Callas as unelected president for life of symmetric cryptography, Bernstein as God King of public key cryptography. Recall the long succession of Wifi debacles. Has any committee ever done anything good in cryptography? IEEE 802.11 was stupid. If NIST was not stupid, it was because evil was calling the shots behind the scenes, overruling the stupid. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5