Re: [PATCH] crypto: remove speck

[Theodore Y. Ts'o]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 08:12:38PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> I mention this because people are naturally going to be curious about that, e.g.
> speculating that Google found a "backdoor" -- remember that we do have some good
> cryptographers!  I'm just stating what we know, out of honesty and openness; I
> don't really intend to be arguing for Speck with this statement, and in any case
> we already made the decision to not use Speck.

Let's be clear --- the arguments about whether or not to use Speck,
and whether or not to remove Speck from the kernel, are purely
political --- not techinical.

						- Ted