[Cryptography] From Nicaragua to Snowden - why no national standards should be considered in cryptosec

[Watson Ladd]

On Feb 27, 2016 3:06 PM, "Ben Laurie" <ben at links.org> wrote:
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> On 27 February 2016 at 17:04, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell at cs.tcd.ie>
wrote:
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>> There's that. But "national" is also no good as a label, as
>> AES is national and some national algs are less well vetted/known
>> than others.
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> Ah, but AES is from the right nation.
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> Its a crazy idea, I know, but there might be some nations who are not so
keen on other nations mandating their crypto.

Because Rijndael is such an American name. The AES was the result of an
open international competition.

Other contests like Nessie have not produced standards that people want.
What's the advantage of national ciphers over AES? Just being different?

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> IETF has pretensions of being worldwide, but really, its all about the
US, with grudging support of their close allies.
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> Is there _any_ non-national crypto?
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