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You really believe the entire cryptographic community is so thoroughly morally compromised? The same community that has been investigating and fighting the NSA'
by Ar-Curunir 10y ago
You really believe the entire cryptographic community is so thoroughly morally compromised? The same community that has been investigating and fighting the NSA's wrongdoings?
Crypto is hard; coming up with sound cryptographic primitives is highly nontrivial if you do not have the right training. Even if you have the mathematics to back it up, safely implementing the mathematics is in itself tricky, with all kinds of side channel attacks potentially breaking your scheme.
- jpitz 10y agoIt's not necessarily that the whole community is compromised, it's that the goals of an organization devoted to signals intelligence align here with the guidance of the community, fostering what converges towards a monoculture.