phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] escrypt funding disclosure

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Message-ID: <CAGiyFdftEbZakfSnfVQb2Ft6R4=SxQH-MN8_NqwzKGz3w_dKQw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:55:04 +0100
From: Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] escrypt funding disclosure

Thanks Alex for disclosing that. No problem.

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For the sake of transparency, I'd like to inform the PHC community (and
> anyone else reading this e.g. in list archives) that Openwall's work on
> our upcoming PHC submission tentatively known as escrypt is partially
> funded under the DARPA Cyber Fast Track program.  (Thanks, mudge and the
> people currently running the program!)
>
> And in case people wonder: there has been absolutely no influence from
> DARPA on the direction of our work on escrypt (nor on anything else we
> do).  We wrote the proposal, it was accepted (verbatim), and we're
> working on the project as originally proposed.
>
> Alexander