[Cryptography] miniLock seems pretty interesting

Thomas von Dein tom at vondein.org
Wed Aug 13 11:30:13 PDT 2014


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 07:47:41PM +0200, Stephan Neuhaus wrote:
> On 2014-08-13, 12:05, Thomas von Dein wrote:
> > So, now there are 5 different implementations for essentially the
> > same thing:
> 
> And even if that were true (which it might well be, didn't check),
> that's bad because...?  OpenSSL has a problem because (among other
> things) there are no real competitors.  With more, and truly different
> implementations, things *will* be different and they *might* be better.

Well, ok, I didn't see it from that viewpoint, so it's essentially a
good thing :) My bad..




best,
Tom



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