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Come on, I'm sure that before bitcoin was invented, no one used the term "crypto" to refer to "cryptography"; doing that would be more cringy than this article

Come on, I'm sure that before bitcoin was invented, no one used the term "crypto" to refer to "cryptography"; doing that would be more cringy than this article itself.

lordfoom 4y ago
> I'm sure And yet you are wrong :)
sunbum 4y ago
Literally everyone did
maratc 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_(book) is from 2001 and it may give you a good indication of what the term crypto was referring to back then.
voytec 4y ago
yp.to - D. J. Bernstein's[1] domain registered in 1997 preceeds Bitcoin[2] by 12 years. [1] https://cr.yp.to/ https://cr.yp.to/ [2] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
mkl 4y ago
Here's OpenSSL calling cryptography crypto in 1998: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/master?after=931369429564b5a9bb09711de8e885fef546a0ac+13934&branch=master&path%5B%5D=crypto&qualified_name=refs%2Fheads%2Fmaster https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/master?after=9313... And libgcrypt in 2000: https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/bf2fc9201cfa96cd70eff0db34578ff3760ccf59 https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/bf2fc9201cfa96cd70ef... Totally normal and not cringy at all. Edit: And on Usenet in 1982: https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=net.misc&mid=dGVrY2FkLjEyOA https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=net.misc&mid=dGVr...
stevoski 4y ago
Someone on the Internet is very wrong today.
- siwatanejo 4y ago
  Alright, touche.
bdcravens 4y ago
As someone who was a developer well before Bitcoin was invented, yes, we did. Here's a conference from 1981 put on by the IEEE: https://www.iacr.org/archive/crypto81/1_front_matter.pdf https://www.iacr.org/archive/crypto81/1_front_matter.pdf
jjav 4y ago
> I'm sure that before bitcoin was invented, no one used the term "crypto" to refer to "cryptography" I have to assume this is sarcasm, right? That's literally what "crypto" has always meant for decades, cryptography. The Crypto conference started in 1981 for instance. https://www.iacr.org/meetings/crypto/ https://www.iacr.org/meetings/crypto/
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Come on, I'm sure that before bitcoin was invented, no one used the term "crypto" to refer to "cryptography"; doing that would be more cringy than this article itself.

lordfoom 4y ago

> I'm sure And yet you are wrong :)

sunbum 4y ago

Literally everyone did

maratc 4y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_(book) is from 2001 and it may give you a good indication of what the term crypto was referring to back then.

voytec 4y ago

yp.to - D. J. Bernstein's[1] domain registered in 1997 preceeds Bitcoin[2] by 12 years. [1] https://cr.yp.to/ https://cr.yp.to/ [2] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

mkl 4y ago

Here's OpenSSL calling cryptography crypto in 1998: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/master?after=931369429564b5a9bb09711de8e885fef546a0ac+13934&branch=master&path%5B%5D=crypto&qualified_name=refs%2Fheads%2Fmaster https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/master?after=9313... And libgcrypt in 2000: https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/bf2fc9201cfa96cd70eff0db34578ff3760ccf59 https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/bf2fc9201cfa96cd70ef... Totally normal and not cringy at all. Edit: And on Usenet in 1982: https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=net.misc&mid=dGVrY2FkLjEyOA https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=net.misc&mid=dGVr...

stevoski 4y ago

Someone on the Internet is very wrong today.

siwatanejo 4y ago
Alright, touche.

bdcravens 4y ago

As someone who was a developer well before Bitcoin was invented, yes, we did. Here's a conference from 1981 put on by the IEEE: https://www.iacr.org/archive/crypto81/1_front_matter.pdf https://www.iacr.org/archive/crypto81/1_front_matter.pdf

jjav 4y ago

> I'm sure that before bitcoin was invented, no one used the term "crypto" to refer to "cryptography" I have to assume this is sarcasm, right? That's literally what "crypto" has always meant for decades, cryptography. The Crypto conference started in 1981 for instance. https://www.iacr.org/meetings/crypto/ https://www.iacr.org/meetings/crypto/

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