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Absolutely nothing the author said is even remotely controversial in the cryptographic community. MTProto is weird and countless choices made in its design are
by stouset 2y ago
Absolutely nothing the author said is even remotely controversial in the cryptographic community.
MTProto is weird and countless choices made in its design are bizarre with no clear rationale. Throwing in confusing and cryptographically unnecessary steps with thin rationalizations is par for the course.
Its authors have specifically chosen an approach that all but guarantees lots of “innocent mistakes”.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoIt’s clearly not a professional technical analysis though.
- stouset 2y agoIt's clearly not intended to be. > This is the story of a bug…
- MichaelZuo 2y agoSo? Both can be true. It's not intended to be and it isn't in fact.
- stouset 2y agoIt’s not a coming of age story. It’s not a violin solo. And it’s also not a tax return from the early 1400s. I don’t really understand why pointing any of these things out would be relevant, but sure.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoOkay? I still think its relevant enough to comment on, by definition.