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

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Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 19:43:20 +0000
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@....freebsd.dk>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net, Thomas Pornin <pornin@...et.org>
Subject: Re: [PHC] Quick gripe... in case there's ever another contest

In message <20140405191448.GA8325@...et.org>, Thomas Pornin writes:

>But it is utopic to hope that the average "reference code" submitted by
>an algorithm designer will achieve such portability.

You have my nomination for "understatement of the year" :-)

I don't consider it utopic to get a *working* C implementation.

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