[Cryptography] On the Impending Crypto Monoculture

[Brian Gladman]

On 26/03/2016 16:30, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Stephen Farrell
> <stephen.farrell at cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
>>
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My thanks to Stephen and yourself for clarifying what the IETF is doing.

Cutting out the 'rubbish', removing options of little value and
providing a main and a back up algorithm for each primitive seems to me
to be a very worthwhile approach (I still wish we had established a main
and a backup when we adopted AES and I am not convinced that we needed
more than a single key length of 128 bits)

I have a long term love of the IETF as it is not (at least not
obviously) under the control of governments in the way some other
standardisation committees with cryptographic interests have been.

   Brian Gladman