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As someone who's worked in the sector (the crypto sector, not the crime one): "Families of Mathematics" is a marketing statement, or "hot air" as I prefer to c
by red_admiral 6y ago
As someone who's worked in the sector (the crypto sector, not the crime one):
"Families of Mathematics" is a marketing statement, or "hot air" as I prefer to call it. The information content of that statement is zero, what it's doing is trying to project warm "you can trust us" feelings.
A statement aimed at technical people would read more like "we use AES-256-OFB with Axolotl on Curve25519 and scrypt(2^14, 8, 1)" or something like that.
To a crypto professional, I'd say any "trust us" statement that's not backed up by technical information actually lowers their trust in the system - it makes you wonder why they're not making their algorithm choice public.
- 0xFluegel 6y agoThanks for clarifying. You convinced me.
- charwalker 6y agoThe US created a fake bank to catch drug runners and cartel bosses. What's to say this isn't an state intelligence backed company created not to sell a product but to be sold to criminals then listened to until warrants were signed? I haven't looked into the service at all so could be totally off.
- pas 6y agoWow. Do you happen to have more details about that fake bank honeypot?
- taylorfinley 6y agoThere's an excellent episode of the npr podcast Planet Money that covers this story: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/694548245 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/694548245
- charwalker 6y agoThat's where I heard it, yeah.
- strbean 6y agoI just interpreted that as "we use RSA and ECC".
- tlrobinson 6y ago> To a crypto professional, I'd say any "trust us" statement that's not backed up by technical information actually lowers their trust in the system - it makes you wonder why they're not making their algorithm choice public. IMHO if your solution isn't open source, or least completely documented so it can be verified, then the whole point is moot anyway.