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Google seems to be joining the tinfoil crowd https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=No-Speck-Yes-HPolyC-Encryption https://www.phoronix.com/scan.p

• tptacek 8y ago
  Developing a superior lightweight cipher design doesn't mean Google is joining any particular criticism of SPECK.
  • coatmatter 8y ago
    Either way it's probably good for Google's reputation for them to roll their own. After all, they don't exactly have as high a standing as Apple appears to have for some things?
• DoreenMichele 8y ago
  As a non techie (for the HN crowd), to me that lends weight to the possibility that there might be some genuine risk. Inability to prove or adequately articulate a risk is not the same as there being none. It's okay to take the position "What I know and what I can prove are two different things." My life only works at all because of my willingness and ability to act on threats before they could possibly be proven, like when I got moved to another team before the guy calling me doll and babe took it over. He was fired more than two years later for sexual harassment or similar, but he wasn't a major problem for me because I never worked for him. (Please note the "non techie" proviso and be kind if you feel the need to point out -- and explain why, using little words -- that it simply is not possible. Thank you.)