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

[James A. Donald]

On 2013-10-04 23:57, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> Oh and it seems that someone has murdered the head of the IRG cyber
> effort. I condemn it without qualification.

I endorse it without qualification.  The IRG are bad guys and need 
killing - all of them, every single one.

War is an honorable profession, and is in our nature.  The lion does no 
wrong to kill the deer, and the warrior does no wrong to fight in a just 
war, for we are still killer apes.

The problem with the NSA and NIST is not that they are doing warlike 
things, but that they are doing warlike things against their own people.