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> which implies the NSA is incompetent at maths No, it doesn't. EDIT: To whoever downvoted - developing cryptography is hard. The idea that developing one bro
by throwawaymath 7y ago
> which implies the NSA is incompetent at maths
No, it doesn't.
EDIT: To whoever downvoted - developing cryptography is hard. The idea that developing one broken cipher implies mathematical incompetence is laughable. You can't draw any conclusion from it except that it's hard to develop ciphers which aren't broken.
- ggm 7y agoI didn't downvote. It was a flippant comment and I am sure they are highly competent. Its just more normal for the algo selection process to winnow out the ones with simple holes, and the authors of this paper say their technique was both simple and fast, which I would have expected to be found sooner.