Re: [saag] AD sponsoring draft-josefsson-scrypt-kdf

[ianG <[e-mail]>]

On 13/08/2015 15:24 pm, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Kathleen Moriarty <[e-mail]> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
>> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Simon Josefsson <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>> As far as I know, Salsa20 was not published at any conference or
>>>> journal, so there may not be any better references.
>>>
>>> Salsa20 was an official submission to estream competition, so the
>>> authoritative reference is the design articles at:
>>> http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/stream/salsa20pf.html (the "Salsa20
>>> specification" and "Salsa20 design").

> http://cr.yp.to/salsa20.html

> This said, I'm not convinced the estream Salsa20 specification is the
> most suitable reference to explain the Salsa20 core hash function.


Concur - the world has changed.  Review-by-web-page is now fairly well 
understood.  As it happens the most influential paper in the space was 
simply bandied around on a mail list for a while.  You could say, it was 
reviewed by running code and rough consensus!  He'll probably end up 
with the first pseudonymous Turing prize.  Or she.  Or they.



iang