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The description of the algorithm is eccentric. I'm guessing it's written by a lawyer. It's not the way cryptographers or hardware people talk.
by tlb 16y ago
The description of the algorithm is eccentric. I'm guessing it's written by a lawyer. It's not the way cryptographers or hardware people talk.
- leif 16y agoIt sounds more like hacker speak. They tend to communicate the most important information not in code or math, but in (as unambiguous as can be made possible) english. It's the sense of "I'm not giving you a crack, I'm just describing it, you can build your own if you really want it".
- _delirium 16y agoThe careful use of English sentences and spelled-out words sounds like it might be aimed at making it harder to suppress it as non-speech. The law's still sort of gray-area around there, but in general courts are more willing to allow "devices" to be banned, and are more protective of "descriptions of devices". Machine code, or pages of hexadecimal numbers, seem like they could be construed as closer to a device, while an English explanation of a mathematical expression is at least a bit closer to a description.