The cr.yp.to microblog: 2011.12.09 14:24:55

2011.12.09 14:24:55 (145131814351155200) from Daniel J. Bernstein, replying to "JP Aumasson (@veorq)" (145091081296551937):

@aumasson One common argument for "don't use anything non-standard" is "all non-standards are insecure"---but that's a wild exaggeration.

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2011.12.05 14:28:53 (143683259157581825) from "JP Aumasson (@veorq)", replying to "Pascal Junod (@cryptopathe)" (143680783608053760):

@cryptopathe @hashbreaker OTOH stdness is the cheapest way to figure out which cipher does the job with high probability

2011.12.05 15:29:14 (143698447189553152) from "Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green)", replying to "JP Aumasson (@veorq)" (143683259157581825):

@aumasson @cryptopathe @hashbreaker ... but that I have so much in nonstandards being wrong. (to paraphrase Asimov).

2011.12.09 11:28:49 (145087498001985536) from Daniel J. Bernstein, replying to "Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green)" (143698447189553152):

@matthew_d_green Seriously? Whenever you see non-standard crypto, you confidently say it's bad? You claim that Serpent is bad, for example?

2011.12.09 11:43:04 (145091081296551937) from "JP Aumasson (@veorq)":

@hashbreaker @matthew_d_green guess we all agree that Pr( bad | non-standard) >= Pr( bad | standard ) /cc @cryptopathe