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by dullgiulio 2213 days ago
salsa20 was added in 2012, the warning file was added into the repository in 2016 the earliest (it is not clear when--which is vary bad for security and also shows the move was not advertised.)

Incompetence is a strong word on the wrong target...

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> the warning file was added into the repository in 2016 the earliest

There is no official public repository. It gets released in tarballs.

This does indeed make him seem slightly less incompetent though.

> which is vary bad for security

It is a framework for benchmarking cryptographic algorithms.