Re: [Cfrg] would it be a good idea for CFRG to try review algorithm documents?

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Fri, 11 December 2015 16:29 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] would it be a good idea for CFRG to try review algorithm documents?
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> So the suggestion here is to try ensure that we're not as open to doing the
> wrong thing as we might otherwise be nor as perhaps some other venues
> still are.

Totally agree.  I was just trying to point out how hard the problem is. :)  or maybe :(