# [Cryptography] On the Impending Crypto Monoculture

<http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2016-March/028824.html>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

What's more, the reference implementations of these algorithms also come from Dan Bernstein (again with help from others), leading to a never-before-seen crypto monoculture in which it's possible that the entire algorithm suite used by a security protocol, and the entire implementation of that suite, all originate from one person.

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