[Dailydave] It jerked and it berked but the thing really worked!
Todd Sabin
tsabin at optonline.net
Mon Feb 23 17:10:21 EST 2009
Dave Aitel <dave at 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 Sabin <tsabin at optonline.net>
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