On Jun 12, 2015 1:27 PM, "Tony Arcieri" <<a href="mailto:bascule@gmail.com">bascule@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > On Friday, June 12, 2015, Michael Hamburg <<a href="mailto:mike@shiftleft.org">mike@shiftleft.org</a>> wrote: >> >> Another commenter said that CFRG’s timeline to a decision was too fast. > > > Wait, someone actually accused the CFRG of moving too *fast*? LOL The reality is that most people invited don't care about security, but the appearence of security. This was very explicit when the Brainpool guy was complaining about Tanja Lange's article and blamed the problems with standards on incompetent implementors. Most people's data doesn't travel over FIPS mandated crypto. CFRG was supposed to solve real world failures. NIST is trying to solve a marketing problem. > > > -- > Tony Arcieri > > > _______________________________________________ > Curves mailing list > <a href="mailto:Curves@moderncrypto.org">Curves@moderncrypto.org</a> > <a href="https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/curves">https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/curves</a> >