phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] PHC output specifics

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Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 15:53:36 +0100
From: Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] PHC output specifics

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Krisztián Pintér <pinterkr@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Jean-Philippe Aumasson
> <jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com> wrote:
>> Should it be public, a risk is that it degenerates into CFRG-like
>> bikeshedding...
>
> how exactly a private discussion promotes the lack of bikeshedding?
> this attitude puzzles me. why do you think anybody will accept what
> you say, just because you say so? this would be an appeal to
> authority, except you don't even have the authority to appeal to.

Based on my experience, fewer people => less bikeshedding, but I might be wrong.

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