The report summarises common crypto primitives and protocols, gives recommendations on what is suitable for legacy use, and what should be used in the future. It's nicely written, but given the scope necessarily limited (there are obvious omissions in the discussion of block ciphers for example). Also, curiously, they don't say much about EC choice ("using a curve specified in a standard is best practice") - but then the word "snowden" doesn't appear in the document either; perhaps it was completed earlier?
The report summarises common crypto primitives and protocols, gives recommendations on what is suitable for legacy use, and what should be used in the future. It's nicely written, but given the scope necessarily limited (there are obvious omissions in the discussion of block ciphers for example). Also, curiously, they don't say much about EC choice ("using a curve specified in a standard is best practice") - but then the word "snowden" doesn't appear in the document either; perhaps it was completed earlier?