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Ah yes of course in 2018 it's still HMAC.


They published a followup to that article two months ago, and the correct answer in 2024 is still HMAC.

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2024/07/29/crypto-right-answer...


Who's "they"? This "right answers" thing is a meme (I ruefully share responsibility for it) that needs to die; Colin Percival has nothing to do with anything but the first one.


I linked to the older Latacora one upthread and this comment is linking to the newer Latacora one. So I think it's reasonable to read "they" as "Latacora" here.


Yes, I wrote the older Latacora one, which was based on thing I wrote under my own name before I founded Latacora; I'm pretty sure I'm on solid ground saying Colin Percival had nothing to do with anything I wrote, since I wrote the first one as a rebuttal to Colin. (Did I misread you? Maybe we just agree.)


I think we agree. I was only responding to the "Who's 'they'?" bit.


Sorry. I'm touchy about the cursed meme I helped create and also flinching at the idea that anything I wrote might get attributed to Colin. Definitely don't mean to jump down your throat.


Yeah, just in the interests of clarity, somebody linked to the Latacora article “Cryptographic Right Answers” and I’d happened to read the updated Latacora article “Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum Edition” a few hours beforehand, so I linked to it. “They” means Latacora, not Colin Percival.


No problem.




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