phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Quick gripe... in case there's ever another contest

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Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 20:50:54 -0400
From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@...il.com>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] Quick gripe... in case there's ever another contest

On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Evgeny Kapun <abacabadabacaba@...il.com> wrote:
> 06.04.2014 02:47, Solar Designer wrote:
> It is important that cryptographic functions are defined to operate on
> bytes, not characters. Otherwise, the definition of such functions would
> depend on the definition of what a character is, and how they are
> represented, which could be as much as the entire Unicode standard.

I strongly agree.  Why on earth did the SCRAM guys feel they had to
include the Unicode definition in their salted challenge-response
password protocol?  I can hardly wait for Tabby PAKE, or something
similar, to lead the way forward.

Bill