A crypto standards manifesto, version 0.1

Update: Anonymous comments must be signed! I've made a couple of exceptions to this policy, but I may stop unscreening comments that don't have any kind of name at the bottom.

My current plan to change the world involves writing a manifesto for a proposed mailing list to work out crypto standards that actually work and stand a chance of getting widely adopted in the open source world. This is essentially version 0.1.5 of that rant, and may contain some inaccuracies or overstatements; I look forward to your comments and corrections. ( Read more... )