[Cryptography] On the Impending Crypto Monoculture

[Stephen Farrell]

On 25/03/16 08:51, Brian Gladman wrote:
> So I can understand the IETF
> motivation for wanting to 'start again and do it better this time'. But
> I don't see their argument for throwing out primitives such as AES that
> are now very widely supported and have proved to be effective in real
> use.

The IETF is not doing that.

Peter's essay is misleading.

We are not heading for a monoculture.

AES, HMAC, RSA, ECDH and ECDSA are not going away for
sure.

It is true that the set of new algorithms being considered
recently is DJB-dominated. (Passwrord hashing is not his.)

S.

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