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<div class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">On 7/8/26, 3:24 PM, "cryptography" <cryptography-bounces+rsalz=akamai.com@metzdowd.com> wrote:</div>
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Once again, Andrew unfairly summarizes to make his point. Those who agree with him have their academic titles posted, those who don’t are smeared with things like “NSA Employee” as if we should a priori be scared of them. He couches them by saying “Example
list” as if that adds credibility to their independence. This tactic becomes tiresome really quickly.</div>
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Why doesn’t the example list of those who support publication include</div>
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Soatok, noted cryptographer (at laest on social media)</div>
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Sophie Schmieg, noted cryptographer</div>
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David Benjamin, world-class implementor of BoringSSL and others</div>
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Scott Fluhrer, security developer/cryptographer</div>
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Richard Barnes, co-author of various HPKE drafts (and the original ACME draft)</div>
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John Mattson, security architect at Ericsson</div>
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and so on. (I would not put myself on that list, but I was a cypherpunk until the trolls took over, supported John Young regularly, and never worked for the NSA or Google.)</div>
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The job of the IETF if not to pick the best and only the best. It is our job to say “if you want to do XXX here is how to do it.” And best, particularly for security, often implies trade-offs such as message size, deployment difficult, overall operating environment,
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