> His comment was a response to your post. Your post discouraged people from writing crypto, because they aren't qualified. This is where you were gatekeeping.

> His comment was a response to your post. Your post discouraged people from writing crypto, because they aren't qualified. This is where you were gatekeeping. Re-read the post carefully. I included examples of people unwittingly trying to gatekeep me in the past. The negative part of that post was about scammers and crackpots who, when confronted with constructive feedback about their designs, doubled down insisting they were smarter than their critics. Being a neophyte doesn't make you a crackpot. From the article: > If you’re reading this blog post and feel like learning about cryptography and cryptanalysis and feel put off by the “don’t roll your own crypto” mantra, and its implied gatekeeping, I hope it’s clear by now who that phrase was mostly intended for and why. (i.e. "NOT YOU" was the implication of that sentence) The post in question is a lot of things, but it's not a gatekeeping piece. For that matter, I also previously wrote this one to resist the tendency of gatekeeping in cryptography: https://soatok.blog/2020/06/10/how-to-learn-cryptography-as-a-programmer/ https://soatok.blog/2020/06/10/how-to-learn-cryptography-as-...