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

[Bill Frantz]

On 10/1/13 at 12:29 AM, dirkx at webweaving.org (Dirk-Willem van 
Gulik) wrote:

>While in a lot of other fields - it is very common for 'run of 
>the mill' constructions; such as when calculating a floor, 
>wooden support beam, a joist, to take the various standards and 
>liberally apply safety factors. A factor 10 or 20x too strong 
>is quite common *especially* in 'consumer' constructions.

In cave rescue the National Cave Rescue Commission (a training 
organization) uses a 7:1 system safety ratio in its trainings. 
This is for building systems where people could be seriously 
hurt or killed if the system fails.

Cheers - Bill, NCRC instructor

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