README.md in rbnacl-2.0.0 vs README.md in rbnacl-3.0.0
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Sure, here you go:
-### Is it full of NSA backdoors?
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-The design of RbNaCl's primitives is completely free from NIST (and by
-association, NSA) influence, with the following minor exceptions:
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-* The Poly1305 MAC, used for authenticating integrity of ciphertexts, uses AES
- as a replaceable component
-* The Ed25519 digital signature algorithm uses SHA-512 for both key derivation
- and computing message digests
-* APIs are provided to certain NIST hash functions, including SHA-256, SHA-512,
- and their associated HMAC counterparts
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-Otherwise, all of the algorithms in NaCl were designed by Dan Bernstein and his
-collaborators.
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-The design choices in NaCl, particularly in regard to the Curve25519
-Diffie-Hellman function, emphasize security (whereas [NIST curves emphasize
-"performance" at the cost of security][nist-security-dangers]), and "magic
-constants" in NaCl are picked by theorems designed to maximize security.
-The same cannot be said of NIST curves, where the specific origins of certain
-constants are not described by the standards and may be subject to malicious
-influence by the NSA.
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-It is the opinion of this library's authors that Dan Bernstein is unlikely to be
-subject to NSA influence (although we have no way of actually knowing this).
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-Dan Bernstein's designs have been well-scrutinized both as part of the [ESTREAM
-Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESTREAM) and the cryptographic community
-as a whole. And despite the emphasis on higher security, NaCl's primitives are
-faster across-the-board than most implementations of the NIST standards.
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-[nist-security-dangers]: http://www.hyperelliptic.org/tanja/vortraege/20130531.pdf
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## Contributing
* Fork this repository on Github
* Make your changes and send a pull request
* If your changes look good, we'll merge 'em
## License
-Copyright (c) 2013 Jonathan Stott, Tony Arcieri.
+Copyright (c) 2012-14 Jonathan Stott, Tony Arcieri.
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for further details.