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Why isn't the submission process anonymous, anyway? (granted, according to the design of the algorithm you may be able to deduce the team who is behind it.)
by corentin 18y ago
Why isn't the submission process anonymous, anyway? (granted, according to the design of the algorithm you may be able to deduce the team who is behind it.)
- tptacek 18y agoOne obvious reason is that unlike, say, SIGCOMM (which is also not anonymous) the authors will need to defend their submissions over multiple rounds of challenges. It's not a "everyone throw your stuff over here and NIST and the NSA will sort it out" kind of thing: the crypto results that select the winner come from research the contestants themselves will in part be doing.