Where did you read that? The only thing she says is to wait the competition to end (by 2022):
> “It's very important that people wait for NIST to do its due diligence,” Frincke said.
This is the standard process.
> “It's very important that people wait for NIST to do its due diligence,” Frincke said.
This is the standard process.
How very fucking convenient.
I don't care what they end up selecting as the winner (and to be honest, I'm so ridiculously paranoid that I don't trust Keccak, for instance), I just think that having a competition where everyone is spending all their energy into looking for flaws on the others candidates is a great thing.
Next year China will announce a similar standardization process. Do I trust China? of course not, but I really welcome this initiative anyways.