[Cryptography] NIST announced Round 1 candidates for lightweight crypto competition

[jamesd at echeque.com]

>> NIST is our enemy.
>>
>> Use standards issued by Jon Callas, unelected president for life of
>> symmetric cryptography, and Daniel Bernstein, God King of asymmetric
>> cryptography.

On 06/05/2019 12:16, Ismail Kizir wrote:
> But Bernstein's NTRU Prime is also one of NIST candidates James:
> https://ntruprime.cr.yp.to/nist.html

By making it a candidate, comes the opportunity to place social pressure 
on Bernstein, rather than the opportunity for Bernstein to place social 
pressure on NIST.