phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] winner selection

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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:56:52 +0100
From: Samuel Neves <sneves@....uc.pt>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] winner selection

On 04/13/2015 04:43 PM, Jim Manico wrote:
> Why only have one winner? Why not choose several winners with various trade-offs based on need?
>

To prevent exposing complexity to users. It's hard enough for experts to choose which functions are better in which
situations; we should not pass that complexity along to end users, if we can avoid it.