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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 c

by 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