Hi folks, Given the ongoing crypto discussion I thought this post on LWN "The prospect of a crypto monoculture" from a few weeks back (publicly available now) might be of interest: https://lwn.net/Articles/681615/ It's a discussion of Peter Gutmann's post to comp.encryption.general entitled "On the Impending Crypto Monoculture" about how we are heading towards a situation where the only strong encryption that seems well designed is both designed and implemented by a single group, led by Dan Bernstein. There is an interesting rebuttal of the fanboyism remark in the LWN article in one of the comments here: Peter's post is archived here: https://lwn.net/Articles/681616/ Peter has been doing crypto for a long time and wrote the excellently titled "Everything you Never Wanted to Know about PKI but were Forced to Find Out": https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/pkitutorial.pdf It's an interesting situation, though I think I'd trust Dan a bit more than I trust the USG now. :-) All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC