Obama: cryptographers who don't believe in magic ponies are "fetishists," "absolutists"

This is generally correct, but there are millions of devices out there that are constrained to specific algorithms and key lengths. SHA1 will not die this year because Cloudflare and Facebook bullied Mozilla* to support a fallback solution.

*) probably an unfair assessment on my side, read the article if you’re interested in a different view : )

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