[Cryptography] Reproducible results

[Robert L. Wilson]

In the thread about "blockchain and trustworthy computing", Lodewijk 
andré de la porte said:

> We are supposed to be doing this with academic papers. Reproduce the result
> at another university that's as different as possible (different sponsors,
> affiliations, religions, researchers, nations, etc), and the
> trustworthiness increases. Thing is - the VW cars fooled the procedure.
> Replication does not make a difference. The procedure was faulty.
I am interested in whether that is actually being carried out as a 
standard procedure in any, or many, disciplines. I certainly don't 
object to it as a goal and hence as "supposed to be doing". But 
*Science* magazine, one of the major publishers of research articles in 
many scientific subjects, recently carried the suggestion that this 
ought to be done, as a reaction to the number of scientific papers that 
have been retracted (worldwide, not just in *Science*) recently. As a 
mathematician, where results don't usually depend on lab equipment and 
procedures, the whole discovery and publication activity is a little 
different from many of the subjects they publish. But, from what I read 
in *Science*, I got the impression this was not usually a condition for 
journal acceptance in any subject. Is that so?

Bob Wilson
(retired from University of Wisconsin math department)
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