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DJB! If you could get him out of his cave at UIC.

Second DJB! Would be the perfect choice, especially now that more and more cryptographers are looking to his curves and protocols, so he already knows what the vision for the future of IETF should be. I'm actually quite excited about the possibility of him being named chair at IETF.

As IETF chair he may be even bring us the elusive "secure by default Internet" with his CurveCP protocol or a future evolution of it. The secure by default Internet has actually been declared one of the main goals of IETF at their recent meeting:

http://www.ietf.org/live/

http://curvecp.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8EGA834Nok

The irony of Daniel Bernstein chairing the IETF crypto review board is so potent that I got a small nosebleed just thinking about it. But, nomination emphatically seconded.

For what it's worth, Bernstein spends most of his time in Europe these days.

Now this might be just gossip-mongering, but care to enlighten us on why djb on the IETF crypto review board would be potent irony?

You'd need to have followed Bernstein's other adventures with IETF standards groups, particularly the DNS standards debacle.

I think that's rather the point. Bernstein has had the constitution to call out the nonsense of the NSA-influenced IETF working groups before it was fashionable to do so. I don't think it'd be ironic to consider him as a replacement for an NSA employee on the way out due to that concern.

More just deserts than irony?

Now there is a true mathematician and technologist all rolled into one!

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