ashur

In India Ashur is a Demon and gods are called Dev, while in old Persia Devs are demons and Ashur (Ahura) is a God.

Tomer Ashur from KU Leuven University, representing the Belgian delegation and it was supported by a large group of countries.

As with previous NSA cipher debates, Ashur takes NSA to task for low security margins.

For example, see Sennacherib's destruction of Babylon's temples and the replacement of Marduk with Ashur as the spiritual backbone of the neo-asyrian dynasty.

I'm not qualified to challenge Tomer Ashur's analysis of Speck and Simon, and I don't think ISO has any business standardizing those algorithms, so Ashur and I reach the same conclusion about the NSA ciphers.

But I think Ashur is overstating his case.

And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord.

It's quite strange to still see so much support here despite of this: > When some of the design choices made by the NSA were questioned by experts, Ashur states, the g-men's response was to personally attack the questioners, which included himself, Orr Dunkelman and Daniel Bernstein, who represented the Israeli and German delegations respectively.

The headline should be "Ashur advocates that it is better that a device be unencrypted, than encrypted with Speck".

In English the city (and god) is usually called "Ashur"; in Akkadian it's Ashshur.

Do you know of anyone who has put "election disinformation" in context between less politically intersecting untruths (urban legends, eg "say bloody Mary three times") and more politically intersecting untruths (eg state worship of Ashur)?

Funnily enough, the currently airing Starz program, Spartacus: House of Ashur does this, has Caesar as a character and all political sides use “pirates” as a bogeyman to justify all sorts of things and stage false flag attacks while pretending to be pirates.

You are providing rationale which the NSA is, according to Ashur, unable to provide in the design documentation/rationale.

Ashur repeatedly alludes to the potential for backdoors in Simon and Speck, but never really engages that subject in any detail.

Ashur notes that these ciphers were sponsored by the same person that sponsored Dual EC.