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Appeal to Authority is not a very good argument either.

• tptacek 4y ago
  It is in this case. Absent any argument other than "I don't trust NIST", the designers of Keccak can refute your comment by simply saying "no, this is fine", and that's what they did.
• kelnos 4y ago
  That's a bit of a stretch. I think the person who initially designed something signing off on a modification of that something is pretty compelling.