[saag] Re: [Ext] Re: draft-paulwh-crypto-components-02

Paul Hoffman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.saag
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On Feb 17, 2025, at 11:14, Christian Huitema <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 2/17/2025 10:12 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
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>> On Feb 14, 2025, at 06:20, Paul Wouters<[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> The recent past (eg non-pq) shows a narrowing of algorithms to mostly be 1 NIST and 1 non-NIST algorithm.
>> Defining "NIST algorithm" is both time-dependent and error-prone. I prefer to think of what many WGs do is "look at what NIST has done, see if there is anything that is widely-believed to be better, and pick". X25519 and friends is an excellent example of this.
> 
> I think the mention of NIST here is a bit of distraction, focusing on administrative issues instead of technology.

Note that the draft only mentions NIST once. This whole thread is not about the wording in the draft.

--Paul Hoffman

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