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There's a US Govt agency called NIST. They sponsor "contests" basically for academics and engineers to put forth proposals for crypto algorithms, which are then
by rnovak 11y ago
There's a US Govt agency called NIST. They sponsor "contests" basically for academics and engineers to put forth proposals for crypto algorithms, which are then reviewed. I'd read up on here[1], if it interests you at all, you can find the original academic papers regarding each of what became the standards, and I think they have references as to the review process as well.
[1]http://csrc.nist.gov/ http://csrc.nist.gov/
- pjscott 11y agoThere are also contests run by groups without any NSA affiliation, such as the CAESAR contest for authenticated encryption [1] and, relevant to this subject, the Password Hashing Competition [2], which recently decided on a pretty impressive winner. [1] http://competitions.cr.yp.to/index.html http://competitions.cr.yp.to/index.html [2] https://password-hashing.net/ https://password-hashing.net/