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Lol good luck finding rigorous and novel cryptography in blog posts. Different media are suited for different purposes.

• toomim 9y ago
  Pdfs are suited for printing. That has nothing to do with rigor. You're conflating fashion with intellect. Example: https://people.xiph.org/~greg/confidential_values.txt https://people.xiph.org/~greg/confidential_values.txt
  • Ar-Curunir 9y ago
    Even that fairly technical document contains no formal definitions or proofs. It would also be much improved with actual mathematical notation. Again, cryptography is a subtle science. It needs proper setup, proper explanation and proper contextualisation. That's not what blogs are good for. Sure, write a blog to accompany a formal document like a paper, but don't replace one with the other. Finally, PDFs are only the most popular format for paper writing because LaTeX does not compile well to HTML, and LaTeX is the best language for mathematics.
    • toomim 9y ago
      Not true. It does make formal definitions and proofs. Without being a PDF.
      • Ar-Curunir 9y ago
        Where are these proofs? Where are the definitions? There's barely even pseudocode describing the algorithm. Honest question: have you read cryptography research papers before?