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6:21 PM
PHC winner announced
Argon2 "won". It will be the basis of the actual recommendation, which will be tweaked with the designers and the PHC panel.
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Makwa will be endorsed for it's factoring based security and the delegation feature
yescrypt will be endorsed for the features it provides and the "easy" migration from scrypt
Catena will be endorsed for it's framework design and side-channel resistance
Same for Lyra2, but with "elegant sponge construction" instead of "framework design"
All algorithms may be changed before final announcement of the final recommendations. ETA end of Q3 2015
 
7:23 PM
anybody knows anything about the following ("old") paper?
 
 
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8:50 PM
@SEJPM No discussions on IACR forums about it: eprint.iacr.org/forum/list.php?16
Though there isn't much discussion on those forums anyways.
Just reading the intro, it sounds fishy
"Our evaluation shows that our scheme has better encryption and decryption performance than AES 128"
Who compares their FHE scheme with AES?
 
 
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11:49 PM
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Q: Allow rebooted questions asking for market and/or product distribution shares?

e-sushiThere´s an older question I´m not sure about: “Who uses the RSA BSAFE library?” From my point of view (and looking at a few comments), it appears to be off-topic for several reasons: it is about market penetration of a (cryptography) product, it´s rather broad (who has insight in all sales/num...

 

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