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"There's a growing consensus among cryptography engineers (by no means all of them, but a pretty significant set of them) that cryptographic agility in protocol
by JoachimS 8y ago
"There's a growing consensus among cryptography engineers (by no means all of them, but a pretty significant set of them) that cryptographic agility in protocols is a design mistake."
And yet in 2018 we have proposals like this:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ntp-using-nts-for-ntp-11 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ntp-using-nts-for-ntp...
To me it looks enormously over engineered with options, versions and flexibility everywhere.
- tptacek 8y agoThere's an even growinger consensus among cryptographers that IETF cryptography standardization is a disaster, even with smart people chairing the WGs. It's just a bad process.