phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Competition process

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Message-ID: <20150414144640.GA4101@openwall.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:46:40 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] Competition process

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 04:35:12PM +0200, Kriszti??n Pint??r wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> > yescrypt is being criticized primarily for being overly(?) complex,
> 
> and this is a valid criticism.

Of course!

I've always recognized this as yescrypt's worst drawback myself.

I even thought of writing "yescrypt is being criticized, including by me,
..."  Given your response, I should have written it that way right away.

Alexander