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SPHINCS: practical stateless hash-based signatures

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Re: SPHINCS: practical stateless hash-based signatures

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I wonder what led to adding the "Special note to law-enforcement agents" section. A past misunderstanding?

Previously the U.S. government enjoyed conflating cryptographic algorithms with munitions.

See http://cr.yp.to/export/status.html

Maybe they were thinking (light heartedly) that a practical post-quantum signature scheme might raise the attention of the government again. So they're giving a shout-out to the legions of governments officials that might find themselves on that page once they whip themselves into a panicked frenzy.

Re: SPHINCS: practical stateless hash-based signatures

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I wonder what led to adding the "Special note to law-enforcement agents" section. A past misunderstanding?

The page has an anarchist-style logo in the upper left. I suspect that this, in addition to the normal stereotyping of "the authorities" as being clueless with regard to technology, is what led to the jibe.
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