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		tptacek on Sept 6, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The NSA Is Breaking Most Encryption on the Interne... Among other reasons, because the private sector sucks at it.

vincie on Sept 6, 2013 [–]

The latest SHA3 was determined in a competition amongst private sector contestants, won by Keccak. Schneier himself put up a candidate - Skein.

Edit: Then there's TrustedBSD (as opposed to SELinux)

tptacek on Sept 6, 2013 | [–]

SHA3 was a contest run by NIST, known to its friends by its other name, NSA.

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