[Cryptography] Crypto Standards v.s. Engineering habits - Was: NIST about to weaken SHA3?

[Ray Dillinger]

Is it just me, or does the government really have absolutely no one
with any sense of irony?  Nor, increasingly, anyone with a sense of
shame?

I have to ask, because after directly suborning the cyber security
of most of the world including the USA, and destroying the credibility
of just about every agency who could otherwise help maintain it, the
NSA kicked off "National Cyber Security Awareness Month" on the first
of October this year.

http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2013/10/01/as-government-shuts-down-nsa-excitedly-announces-national-cyber-security-awareness-month/

[Slow Clap]  Ten out of ten for audacity, wouldn't you say?

Bear