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I might be the square here, but for something as serious as an encrypted P2P platform that is meant to evoke trust and privacy and security, the silliness of th
by markbao 13y ago
I might be the square here, but for something as serious as an encrypted P2P platform that is meant to evoke trust and privacy and security, the silliness of that README is an odd match.
And I don't think that's a trivial thing, as this is meant to be a foundational product used to build secure systems, and the marketing of the product (the GitHub README) contributes to how people will see it, whether they decide to use it, and is ultimately is a part of the landscape of the development of secure, encrypted systems.
- indrax 13y agoI think they're trying to say that they're at a stage that they don't want to evoke trust, they want to evoke scrutiny and perhaps play testing.
- Egregore 13y agoMore information is on their Philosophy page: https://github.com/cryptosphere/cryptosphere/wiki/Philosophy https://github.com/cryptosphere/cryptosphere/wiki/Philosophy
- nly 13y agoAn interesting selection of anti-establishment crypto primitives and protocols... although, if I'm not mistaken, DJB has been involved with every single one. If anyone saw Dan Kaminsky talk at LISA 2013[0], you can really see what he means about NIST being replaced by "some guy". [0] https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/rethinking-dogma https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/rethinking-dogma