@bascule I have mixed feelings about it. NIST shouldn't be blindly trusted, but it's standards aren't all bad. So... Meh.
Should I remove the anti-NIST "FUD" on the RbNaCl README? https://github.com/cryptosphere/rbnacl …
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@adamcaudill except the one it just *finally* retracted today? -
@bascule I'm really amazed it took them so long to make it official. I trust AES, SHA2, some are good. Some are *very* bad. -
@bascule They certainly don't deserve the blind trust that so many give them, or at least used to give them. -
@adamcaudill there was the time they pushed DSA as an NSA-supplied alternative to RSA to have standardized pubkey signatures but not crypto
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@bascule I don't think software documentation is the place for politics, even if they are correct. Politics: no. Education: yes. -
@bascule So... the right thing to be asking is "Is this education or is this politics?" -
@DefuseSec I'll buy it... gonna remove it. Perhaps it should be the subject of a blog post instead of the README
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