> No one trusts NIST. I trust NIST to run algorithm competitions.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 6:07 PM Deirdre Connolly <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyway my point was that designing new crypto is tricky period, there's > nothing special about being resistant to attacks that are efficient on a > quantum computer than being resistant to cryptographic attacks in general > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2026, 1:01 AM Deirdre Connolly <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> You don't trust AES? >> > >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2026, 12:50 AM Rob Sayre <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 4:23 PM Deirdre Connolly < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Many cryptographic designs across all areas have been broken >>>> classically. There is a reason there was a ~ten year international >>>> competition that started with 88 ~new schemes that was whittled down to ~4 >>>> (the NIST PQC series). There was also a NIST competition to select a new >>>> block cipher, >>>> >>> >>> No one trusts NIST. But people do trust the IETF. Let's not lose that. >>> >>> thanks, >>> Rob >>> >> _______________________________________________ > TLS mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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