"We're susceptible to process attacks" plus "pointing it out might be an attack on the process" is much much better than not being aware of attacks on the proce

"We're susceptible to process attacks" plus "pointing it out might be an attack on the process" is much much better than not being aware of attacks on the process. Supposing this is DJB attacking the process, well, the other participants can simply find the fly in his ointment, point it out, and stop the attack. It's hard to argue that DJB's paper doesn't represent progress then since we can both, reason about its claims and reason about it being an instance of an attack on the process, whereas prior to this we weren't seriously considering attacks on the process at all.