I wrote:

>Those are some pretty odd stats... Camellia is almost as popular as 3DES?

To which Yaron Sheffer pointed me to:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10378066/which-algorithm-is-stronger-for-tls-aes-256-or-camellia-256

which says:

  The reasoning is contained in the NSS library source code and is somewhat
  convoluted, but it has nothing to do with security. It has to do with a
  desire to support national vanity algorithms.

I'm sure there's a fascinating story behind that one... why is a major
browser's security library making choices about vanity suites?

Peter.

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