You wrote; "we can, if we wish, continue to standardize one protocol, watch
as the world deploys a different one, and still pretent that our effort was
worthwhile. however, this would fit the technical definition of "insanity",
and i urge that we avoid this course of action."
The IETF has been doi
there is some evidence to suggest that two factors will drive increasingly
large responses. first is signing with multiple algorithms and second is
increases in key sizes. in a worst case model, we have to shift to
the McEliece
cryptosystem, post quantum crypto. for a standard selection of parame
