Re: It jerked and it berked but the thing really worked!

[Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 05:10:21PM -0500, Todd Sabin wrote:
| Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com> writes:
| 
| > http://blog.fortify.com/blog/fortify/
| >
| > So Fortify owned up the SHA-3 hash contestants. It's highly
| > embarrassing. I'm not sure why contestants were required to include a
| > C implementation, but in the future this should be a managed language,
| > like Java or C#. That would provide better results too, since people
| > would understand it easier and it would be optimized at a higher
| > level. Although, maybe anyone who submits code with bugs should just
| > be disqualified, because that's funnier?
| 
| Fortify mortify
| Many cryptographers
| Writing in C when they
| Really should not.
| 
| Nevertheless, we'll for-
| Give them because of the
| Cryptanalytical
| Skills they have got.
| 

Todd wrote some poetry
explaining cryptography
but not pointedly

As rain falls on me
Cryptol seems quite relevant
will it build safely?

(http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2009/01/cryptol_language_for_cryp.html)



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