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It seems currently open source has a DJB monoculture. Meanwhile, recent NIST has a Joan Daemen monoculture (AES and SHA-3). Early 1990s there was a Ron Rivest m

It seems currently open source has a DJB monoculture. Meanwhile, recent NIST has a Joan Daemen monoculture (AES and SHA-3). Early 1990s there was a Ron Rivest monoculture (RSA, MD5, RC4).

tux3 3y ago
AES and SHA-3 sharing one contributor isn't exactly the same situation. NIST does a lot more than just John Daemen's algorithms. And you can't have an entire crypto toolbox with just AES and SHA-3. If you use NIST, you use the output of a committee, after it goes through another committee. If you use sodium, then DJB is all there is. Dan is the committee. Even your hash (blake2) is secretly ChaCha20 inside.
- fmajid 3y ago
  Technically, libsodium is Frank Denis, not DJB, even if it started as repackaged DJB NaCl, but has diverged a little since.
  - tux3 3y ago
    I almost wrote NaCl, but I think the point is about the crypto primitives, though the higher-level library is what everyone uses in practice
yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
> It seems currently open source has a DJB monoculture. I mean, if you're going to have monoculture, that seems like the one to go with...