Schneier On the US Crypto Competition 58
Bruce Schneier has a commentary in Wired titled An American Idol for Crypto Geeks on the US government's competition for a new cryptographic hash function to become the national standard, covered here recently. He talks about how much the competition, slated to wrap up by 2011, will advance the cryptographic state of the art. And how much fun he expects to have.
Terrorists?? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Terrorists?? (Score:1, Funny)
Donald Rumsfeld is the early favourite (Score:2, Funny)
tasty (Score:2, Funny)
American Idol? (Score:4, Funny)
Fun ??? (Score:3, Funny)
That man gets everywhere (Score:4, Funny)
Re:SHA-256? (Score:0, Funny)
AC FTW!
Re:Fun ??? (Score:5, Funny)
I Win! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:American Idol? (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe this guy should submit his work. He'd be right about on William Hung's level of competetiveness....
http://xkcd.com/c153.html [xkcd.com]
Bruce could take the Simon Cowell role... (Score:3, Funny)
... insulting the inferior entries.
(Search his site for "The Doghouse" for some smackdowns of snake-oil crypto products.)