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Re: [Cryptography] Now it's personal -- Belgian cryptographer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Outerbridge)
Mon Feb 3 00:02:10 2014
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From: Richard Outerbridge <outer@sympatico.ca>
In-Reply-To: <52EF0130.6060401@echeque.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 23:41:34 -0500
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: Cryptography Mailing List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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On 2014-02-02 (33), at 21:38:40, James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2014, at 5:38 AM, ianG wrote:
>>> We can play the game of "you don't know that for a fact" forever, but at
>>> the end of the day, they will never enter court and let the court
>>> declare it a fact, so that easy excuse is their game, their rules, their
>>> victory.
> =
> On 2014-02-03 09:56, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>> And the alternative is ... what? The witch hunt? The mob? Kill all, G=
od will know his own?
> =
> Short of the fall of the US government, we are not in position to hang th=
em
> =
> The alternative, is simply to distrust them and everything they have touc=
hed, to assume that any *software* that they have a finger in is guilty unt=
il proven innocent, that every committee that they have a member on is tryi=
ng impose broken standards, and or prevent workable standards.
> =
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In retrospect it seems that certain aspects of the then au currant NIST
statistical randomness tests were badly flawed at the time that AES candida=
tes
were being evaluated. Don=92t know that it would have made much difference,
just noting that they were badly skewed. How could this have happened?
__outer
/ps co-submitter DEAL.
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