phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Proposed timeline changes

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Message-ID: <CA+aY-u4aVqVjS33yg3SrrkJw09d3=ppo-1GTAG8VKSJ=V9OmGw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 07:04:42 +0000
From: Peter Maxwell <peter@...icient.co.uk>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] Proposed timeline changes

On 5 January 2014 00:10, Daniel Franke <dfoxfranke@...il.com> wrote:

>
> 1. Move out the round 1 submission deadline to March 31.
>
> 2. Restructure round 2. Instead of choosing finalists and permitting minor
> tweaks, allow the submission of completely new designs. To maintain some
> coherence and discourage holding back ideas, require that every round 2
> submission have at least one round 1 participant listed as an author. From
> there I think we can go directly to selecting winners. Unless we get a lot
> more entries than I expect, culling the field down to a set of finalists
> seems unnecessary. The revised timeline might look something like this:
>
> 2014 Mar 31: 1st round submissions due
> 2015 Q1: 2nd round submissions due
> 2015 Q4: winners selected
>
> Thoughts?
>

I think you'll be onto plums, Jean-Philippe Aumasson specifically said at
the end of November that the deadline wouldn't be changed (during a
discussion surrounding the deadline for the CAESAR competition).

Personally, I think the deadline is fine as it is: it's been advertised for
a year.

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