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by kccqzy 633 days ago
Ah yes of course in 2018 it's still HMAC.
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They published a followup to that article two months ago, and the correct answer in 2024 is still HMAC.

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2024/07/29/crypto-right-answer...

Who's "they"? This "right answers" thing is a meme (I ruefully share responsibility for it) that needs to die; Colin Percival has nothing to do with anything but the first one.
I linked to the older Latacora one upthread and this comment is linking to the newer Latacora one. So I think it's reasonable to read "they" as "Latacora" here.
Yes, I wrote the older Latacora one, which was based on thing I wrote under my own name before I founded Latacora; I'm pretty sure I'm on solid ground saying Colin Percival had nothing to do with anything I wrote, since I wrote the first one as a rebuttal to Colin. (Did I misread you? Maybe we just agree.)
I think we agree. I was only responding to the "Who's 'they'?" bit.
Sorry. I'm touchy about the cursed meme I helped create and also flinching at the idea that anything I wrote might get attributed to Colin. Definitely don't mean to jump down your throat.