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Anyone (not saying Gutmann) who thinks djb's algorithms have been adopted due to "rampant fanboyism" missed the years of debates about elliptic curves that happ
by bascule 11y ago
Anyone (not saying Gutmann) who thinks djb's algorithms have been adopted due to "rampant fanboyism" missed the years of debates about elliptic curves that happened on the IRTF CFRG mailing list (primarily involving Microsoft).
- CiPHPerCoder 11y agoThey also missed the hilarious saga of the Crystalline cipher.
- Laforet 11y agoNever heard about this before so I read it up on the cfrg list and oh dear it was phenomenal. https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg06826.html https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg06826....
- CiPHPerCoder 11y agoThis was my favorite response: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg06805.html https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg06805....