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Reconsidering Speck

Reconsidering Speck

Posted Aug 9, 2018 17:50 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Reconsidering Speck by brouhaha
Parent article: Reconsidering Speck

> Lack of a reasonable rationale document _IS_ a technical reason, having nothing to do with politics.

However, the definition of "reasonable" is highly political.


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Reconsidering Speck

Posted Aug 9, 2018 20:42 UTC (Thu) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698) [Link]

Did you read the Ashur email? When the NSA did provide their so-called rationale, they did not really address even the most basic concerns raised by the ISO committee. That would be grounds for rejection_regardless_ of who was pushing the cipher. That's why I stand by my statement that the rejection was on a technical basis, not political.


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