Do you rather trust a widely adopted algorithm or an underdog if they’re cryptoanalytically on a level playingfield?

If it comes to the security a hashing or encryption algorithm provides, we never know the full story. There’s that part that we (respectively the public research) understand and can reason about, but we also know that there might be weakne… Continue reading Do you rather trust a widely adopted algorithm or an underdog if they’re cryptoanalytically on a level playingfield?